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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 27, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I | 47 | $****** - ****** | The Virgin and Child |
paintings
103.2 x 76.8 cm (40.63 x 30.25 in)
oil on canvas
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802), Paris;
His sale, London, Skinner and Dyke, 23-25 March 1795, lot 80, for 205 guineas;
There acquired by Michael Bryan, London;
By whom privately sold, Pall Mall, 1798;
From whom acquired by Henry Hope (1735-1811), London, May 1798;
His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 29 June 1816, lot 84, to Norton for £320.5;
The Dukes of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, by 1818;
Thence by descent in the family;
Their sale, London, Christie's, 19 January 1951, for £1,600;
With B. Hallsborough Ltd., London, 1952;
Mrs. N. Q. Morris, London, 1967;
Norton Simon Foundation, Los Angeles;
By whom anonymously sold, London, Sotheby's, 16 April 1980, lot 91;
Private collection, Geneva;
With Derek Johns;
From whom acquired by the present collector, March 2000.
London, British Institution, 1821, no. 123 (lent by the Duke of Bedford);
Plymouth and Bristol, Regional Museum Service for the South-West, The Morris Loan Collection , 1959-1960, no. 22.
S. Dodd, An Historical and Topographical Account of the Town of Woburn, Its Abbey, and Vicinity, Woburn 1818, p. 48;
W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting , London 1824, vol. I, pp. 240 and 294;
J.D. Parry, A Guide to Woburn Abbey , Woburn 1831, p. 23;
P.F. Robinson, History of Woburn Abbey , London 1833, p. 17;
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain , London 1854, vol. II, p. 283;
G. Scharf, A descriptive and historical catalogue of the collection of pictures at Woburn Abbey: Catalogue of pictures, miniatures and enamels of His Grace The Duke of Bedford, London 1875, pp. 38-39, cat. no. 45;
E.E. Minor, Murillo , New York 1882, p. 76;
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo , New York and London 1883, p. 157, no. 105;
A.L. Mayer, Murillo , Berlin 1913, reproduced p. 50;
A.L. Mayer, Murillo , Stuttgart 1923, p. 53, reproduced;
J.A. Gaya Nuño, La Pintura Española fuera de España , Madrid 1958, p. 245, cat. no. 1898;
E. Young, The Connoisseur , vol. 193, 1976, p. 184, reproduced fig. 7;
J.A. Gaya Nuño, La obra pictórica completa de Murillo , Milan 1978, p. 103, cat. no. 196, reproduced;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo: su vida, su arte, su obra , Madrid 1981, vol. II, pp. 155-157, cat. no. 158, reproduced vol. III, plate 133;
E. Valdivisieo, Murillo. Sombras de la tierra. Luces del cielo, Madrid 1990, pp. 75-76;
G. Tinterow, Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting , New York 2003, pp. 8-10, note 24;
E. Valdivieso, Murillo, Catálogo razonado de pinturas , Madrid 2010, p. 332, cat. no 100, reproduced;
E. Valdivieso, La Escuela de Murillo, Seville 2018, pp. 139-140, reproduced.
Property from a Distinguished California Collection
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Seville 1618 - 1682
The Virgin and Child
oil on canvas
canvas: 40 5/8 by 30 1/4 in.; 103.2 by 76.8 cm.
framed: 47 by 37 in.; 119.4 by 94 cm.
