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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 22 | $****** - ****** | THE SLEEPING CHRIST CHILD |
paintings
46.7 x 61.5 cm (18.39 x 24.21 in)
oil on canvas
inscribed with inventory numbers left and right: B. / 19.
Infante don Luis Antonio Jaime de Borbón y Farnesio (1727–85), palace of Boadilla del Monte, by 1776, recorded in the inventories of 1776 and 1780;Thence by descent to his daughter, María Luisa de Borbón y Vallabriga, Duquesa de San Fernando (1783–1846), recorded in the inventory of 1793;
By whom sold to Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marqués de Salamanca and 1st Conde de Llanos (1811–83), by whom given in 1845 to
Anne, née Clarke-Jervoise, wife of John Abel Smith, MP (1799–1858), Dale Park, Sussex;
Thence by family descent to Lt. Col. Osbert Walter Dudley Smith (1898–1973), Levant Lodge, Earls Croome, Worcestershire;
Thence by family descent to the present owners.
On loan, York, Fairfax House, since 1991.
Boadilla del Monte Inventory 1776;Boadilla del Monte Inventory 1780;
Boadilla del Monte Inventory 1793;
Probably A. Ponz, Viage de España, en que se da noticia de las cosas apreciables y dignas de saberse que hay en ella. Trata de Madrid y sitios reales immediatos, vol. VI, Madrid 1776, p. 146 ('de Murillo hay un Niño Dios' at Boadilla);
W. Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain, London 1848, vol. III, p. 1428;
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo. A descriptive and historical catalogue of the works, London and New York 1883, p. 183, cat. no. 163b;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, 'Un Niño Jesús dormido y una Virgen de Murillo', in Archivo español de arte, vol. 36, no. 143, 1963, p. 191, note 1, reproduced fig. 1;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo. Catálogo crítico, Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 191, cat. no. 205, reproduced vol. III, fig. 322;
E. Valdivieso, Murillo. Sombras de la tierra, luces del cielo, Madrid 1990, p. 184;
E. Valdivieso, Murillo. Catálogo razonado de pinturas, Madrid 2010, p. 380, cat. no. 165, reproduced in colour.
inscribed with inventory numbers left and right: B. / 19.
oil on canvas
46.7 x 61.5 cm.; 18 3/8 x 24 1/4 in.
