THE PROPERTY OF AN INSTITUTION
Circle of BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
Details
Circle of BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
The Immaculate Conception
oil on canvas
75 x 57¼in. (190.5 x 145.4cm.)
The Immaculate Conception
oil on canvas
75 x 57¼in. (190.5 x 145.4cm.)
Provenance
Don Juan de Palofax y Mendoza, Archbishop of Mexico (+1655) The Convento de Carmelitas, Mexico City, to whom donated by the above in the 17th Century and where it remained until the beginning of the 19th Century
The Convento de Carmelitas, Vera Cruz, until 1812
Archbishop Don Antonio Joaquin Perez Martinez, Ambassador of the Spanish Cortes, until 1851
Don Francisco Pablo Vazquez, Archbishop of Mexico, and Plenipotentiary to the Pope, for whom it was purchased in 1851 by Don Jose Lang, a merchant of Puebla
Mr. J. Henry Dick, Offenbach, Germany, to whom given by the above in 1853
with Williams and Norgate; Christie's, London, June 1, 1861, lot 106 (#619 to Holloway)
Captain A.C. Tupper, until 1871
John Jones, purchased from above in 1871 for #350
Anon. Sale, Lepke, Berlin, Feb. 24, 1914, lot 64
Captain E.N.F. Loyd, Shaw Hill, Melksham, Wiltshire; sale, Christie's, London, April 30, 1937, lot 118, (#945 to Permain and Watson)
William Randolph Hearst; sale, Hammer Gallery, New York, 1941, no. 40
The Convento de Carmelitas, Vera Cruz, until 1812
Archbishop Don Antonio Joaquin Perez Martinez, Ambassador of the Spanish Cortes, until 1851
Don Francisco Pablo Vazquez, Archbishop of Mexico, and Plenipotentiary to the Pope, for whom it was purchased in 1851 by Don Jose Lang, a merchant of Puebla
Mr. J. Henry Dick, Offenbach, Germany, to whom given by the above in 1853
with Williams and Norgate; Christie's, London, June 1, 1861, lot 106 (#619 to Holloway)
Captain A.C. Tupper, until 1871
John Jones, purchased from above in 1871 for #350
Anon. Sale, Lepke, Berlin, Feb. 24, 1914, lot 64
Captain E.N.F. Loyd, Shaw Hill, Melksham, Wiltshire; sale, Christie's, London, April 30, 1937, lot 118, (#945 to Permain and Watson)
William Randolph Hearst; sale, Hammer Gallery, New York, 1941, no. 40
Literature
C.B. Curtis, Art Journal, 1855
Unas Pinturas del Carmen de Puebla, La Cruz, May 14, 1857
Probably F. Palermo, Maria Immaculata bocetto de B. Morillo, etc..., 1868, p. 26
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, 1883, p. 133, no. 40
A.F. Calvert, Murillo. A Biography and Appreciation, 1907, p. 89, illustrated, as 'The Assumption' by Murillo
Icaza, Murillo en Mexico, La Esfera, no. 460, Oct. 28, 1922
Long, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, 1923, as after the unknown original
Alaman, Documentos Mejico, 1945, I, p. 578
I. Rodriguez, La Critica de Arte en Mexico en el siglo XIX, 1964, p. 496
X. Moyssen, Murillo en Mexico. La Virgen de Belén in Boletin Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia, no. 28, June 1967, p. 13
Kauffman, The Catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, illustrated
D. Angulo Iniguez, Murillo, 1981, II, p. 374, no. 785; III, fig. 501, as a follower of Murillo
Unas Pinturas del Carmen de Puebla, La Cruz, May 14, 1857
Probably F. Palermo, Maria Immaculata bocetto de B. Morillo, etc..., 1868, p. 26
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, 1883, p. 133, no. 40
A.F. Calvert, Murillo. A Biography and Appreciation, 1907, p. 89, illustrated, as 'The Assumption' by Murillo
Icaza, Murillo en Mexico, La Esfera, no. 460, Oct. 28, 1922
Long, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, 1923, as after the unknown original
Alaman, Documentos Mejico, 1945, I, p. 578
I. Rodriguez, La Critica de Arte en Mexico en el siglo XIX, 1964, p. 496
X. Moyssen, Murillo en Mexico. La Virgen de Belén in Boletin Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia, no. 28, June 1967, p. 13
Kauffman, The Catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, illustrated
D. Angulo Iniguez, Murillo, 1981, II, p. 374, no. 785; III, fig. 501, as a follower of Murillo
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1841
London, Royal Academy, 1870
London, Royal Academy, 1870