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