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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 7, 2016 | Christie's | London | From Ancient to Modern: A Distinguished Private Collection | 50 | $****** - ****** | Saint Joseph and the Christ Child |
paintings
222 x 164 cm (87.4 x 64.57 in)
oil on canvas
(Probably) Commissioned by Don Juan Francisco Eminente, Seville, from whom acquired by the following, Don Francisco Artier, Madrid, by 1724. Marqués de San Adriàn y Santiago, Madrid, by 1787, from whom acquired in 1808 by the following, G. Augustus Wallis for William Buchanan and brought to England in November 1809, before being sold for £2,000 to the following, Mr. Harris (died before 1824), Bond Street, London. George 'Poodle' Byng (1764-1847), Wrotham Park, Middlesex, by 1842, and by descent in the family until 1990. Sold by Order of Trustees from the Collection at Wrotham Park;
Christie's, London, 14 December 1990, lot 31. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 45 when acquired by the present owner.
London, British Institution, 1842, no. 184, as 'Saint Francis and the Infant Christ'. London, British Institution, 1863, no. 31, as 'Saint Francis and the Infant Saviour'. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, January-March 1881, no. 170. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, January-March 1893, no. 113.
R. Cumberland, Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain during 16th and 17th centuries, London, 1787 (2nd ed.), II, p. 126. E. Davies, The Life of B. Esteban Murillo, compiled from the writings of various authors, London, 1819, p. lxiii. W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of Importation of Pictures by the Great masters into England since the French Revolution, London, 1824, pp. 222 and 234. G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 324, noted in the Second Drawing Room at Wrotham Park: 'Murillo - St. Joseph with a lily in his left hand, his right holding the boy Christ, who is walking beside him. Angels and angels' heads in the sky. Whole-length figures, life-size. An elevated expression of melancholy pervades the heads. The execution also is very careful in a silvery tone'. W. Stirling-Maxwell, Essay towards a Catalogue of Prints engraved from the works of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velàzquez and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, London, 1873, p. 74. C.B. Curtis, Velàzquez and Murillo, London, 1883, p. 176, under no. 146a, p. 238, nos. 300k and 300l, pp. 253-4, no. 348, and p. 255, no. 358. A. Palomino de Castro y Velasco, El Museo Pictorico y Escala Optica, III: El Parnaso español pintoresco laureado, Madrid, 1947, p. 173; translated by N. Ayala Mallory as Lives of the Eminent Spanish Painters and Sculptors, Cambridge, 1987, p. 282. D. Angulo Iñiguez, 'Quelques tableaux de Murillo', Actas del XXII Congreso Internacional de Historia del Arte, Budapest, 1972, II, p. 783. D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Madrid, 1981, II, p. 252, under no. 304, p. 262, under no. 322, pp. 262-3, under no. 323, pp. 263-4, no. 324, and p. 483, no. 1.910. F. Russell in The Treasure Houses of Britain, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1985, p. 375, under no. 308. E. Valdivieso, Murillo: Catalogo Razonado de Pinturas, Madrid, 2010, p. 335, no. 102.
