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Provenance
King Louis-Philippe of France, by 1838; given to the Louvre but restored to the king as his private property after the revolution of 1848 and sold by his heirs, Christie's, 7 May 1853 (=2nd day), lot 144, as Zurbaran (#28 to Cave)
William Cave (+), Brentry House, near Bristol; Christie's, 29 June 1854, lot 7* [sic], as Zurbaran
Purchased at the sale for 11½gns. by Graves on behalf of William Stirling, later Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th. Bt. (1818-1878), and thence by descent at Keir
Literature
J. Baticle and C. Marinas, La Galerie espagnole de Louis-Philippe au Louvre 1838-1848, 1981, p.221, no.345, illustrated p.279
Exhibited
Paris, Louvre, Galerie Espagnole, 1838-1848 (Notice de la Galerie espagnole, 1st. ed., 1838, no.335; 4th. ed., no.345)

Lot Essay

The present picture was regarded in the nineteenth century as the work of Zurbaran, an attribution rejected by Baticle and Marinas. Mrs. Enriqueta Frankfort Harris has kindly pointed out that the same image is depicted (with variations) in two pictures in Valladolid - the central compartment of a retable by Felipe and Manuel Gil de Mena in the Iglesia de la Magdalena, and a painting by Felipe Gil de Mena the Younger in the Iglesia de Santa Ana (E. Valdivieso, La pintura en Valladolid en el siglo XVII, 1971, pls.LII and LIII), and it may represent the vision of Marina de Escobar (1554-1633), a venerable lady of Valladolid

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