The martyrs of Mount Ararat

Details

Attributed to Juan Rodriguez de Solis (active León c.1575)
The martyrs of Mount Ararat
oil on panel
9¾ x 20 in. (24.8 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1976, lot 91.
George P. Harding, Chicago, by whom given to the Museum in 1984.

Literature

C.P. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, Cambridge, 1941, IX, part II, p. 542, fig. 209.
J.A. Gaya-Nuno, La Pintura Española Fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, no. 2492.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve. This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

The legend of the martyrdom of the Roman centurion and his 10,000 legionnaires on Mount Ararat has been transformed here into a scene with three men, naked except for loincloths and crowns of thorns, spitted on the spiny branches of three bare trees. Standing beside the trees is Saint Acacius carrying a crozier and wearing a mitre and other pontifical vestments.

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