STUDIO OF DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)

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25.01.2023 16:00 UTC +00:00
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Lot 127 | STUDIO OF DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)
STUDIO OF DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)

The Tears of Saint Peter

signed 'doménikos theotokópoulos / e'poíei' (in cursive Greek, center right)

oil on canvas

40 1/2 x 33 3/4 in. (102.8 x 86.2 cm.)





Provenance

Marqués de Casa Torres, Madrid, until 1954.

Alejandro de Mora y Aragón, Madrid, by 1962.

with Colnaghi, London.

Private collection, Germany.

Private collection, Switzerland, by 1982.

with Antigüedades Linares, Madrid, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

A.L. Mayer, El Greco, Munich, 1926, no. 203, as Workshop of El Greco.

M. Legendre and A. Hartman, Domenico Theotokopoulos dit El Greco, Paris, 1937, pp. 299, 489, 507, illustrated.

J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco, Madrid, 1950, pp. 602, 604, 1378, no. 434, fig. 456.

H. Soehner, 'Greco in Spanien: Teil III: Katalog der Gemälde Grecos, seines Ateliers und seiner Nachfolge in Spanischem Besitz', Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, IX-X, 1958-1959, no. 145, as a workshop replica, possibly by Preboste.

K. Ipser, El Greco der Maler des christlichen Weltbildes, Braunschweig and Berlin, 1960, p. 360.

H.A. Wethey, El Greco and His School, II, Princeton, 1962, pp. 254-255, no. X-436, as School of El Greco, early XVII Century.

J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco, Madrid, 1970, p. 618, fig. 498.
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