School of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco (1541-1614)

Saint Peter

Details
School of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco (1541-1614)
Saint Peter
oil on canvas
38 x 31in. (96.5 x 78.7cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, Vitoria (the Marqués de Legarda?).
H.D. Havemeyer, New York, by 1912; sale, the American Art Association, April 10, 1930, lot 98 as El Greco ($15,000).
Literature
Pantheon, June 1930, p. xxxvi.
J. Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco, 1950, no. 431.
H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, 1962, II, p. 255, no. X-440, as 'School of El Greco, XVII Century. A much repainted and somewhat saccharine replica'.
A. von Saldern, Spanish Paintings from the Cintas Collection, The Brooklyn Museum Annual, 4, 1962-3, p. 60, no. 3.
H.E. Wethey, El Greco y su Escuela, 1967, II, p. 270, no. X-440.
J. Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco, 2nd ed., 1970, II, p. 1362, no. 454.
Exhibited
New York, Knoedler and Co., Paintings by El Greco and Goya, 1912, no. 2.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1962-3, on loan, no. 3.63.675.
Jacksonville, FL, Cummer Gallery of Art, 1964, on loan as El Greco. Miami, FL, The Lowe Art Museum, 1988, on loan as Studio of El Greco.