STUDIO OF FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN (FUENTE DE CANTOS, BADAJOZ 1598-1664 MADRID)

Lot 154
07.07.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 990697
Lot 154 | STUDIO OF FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN (FUENTE DE CANTOS, BADAJOZ 1598-1664 MADRID)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
STUDIO OF FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN (FUENTE DE CANTOS, BADAJOZ 1598-1664 MADRID)

The Crucifixion

inscribed 'IESVS NAZARENVS / REXIVDÆORVM' (upper centre, on the cross)

oil on canvas

60 1/8 x 40 3/4 in. (152.8 x 103.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) commissioned as the main altarpiece for the church of the Franciscan monastery of Encarnación, Arcos de la Frontera, Spain, 26 May 1637, finished August 1638.

Casanova, Cádiz.

Ángel Picardo, Cádiz.

Private collection, Barcelona.



Literature

A.L. Mayer, 'Some Unknown Works by Zurbarán', Apollo, VII, 1928, p. 181, as 'Zurbarán'.

C. Pemán, 'Zurbarán y el Arte Zurbaranesco en Colecciones Gaditanas', Archivo Español de Arte, XIX, 1946, p. 163, fig. 3, as 'Zurbarán'.

C. Pemán, Zurbarán y otros estudios sobre pinture del XVII español, Madrid, 1989, pp. 91-4.

P. Guinard, Zurbarán et les peintres espagnols de la vie monastique, Paris, 1960, p. 220, no. 101.

J.M. Carrascal Muñoz, Zurbarán, Madrid, 1973, p. 128.

J. Gállego and J. Gudiol, Zurbarán 1598-1664, Barcelona, 1976, p. 103, no. 306.

O. Delenda, Francisco de Zurbarán, Madrid, 2010, II, p. 388, no. II-54, as 'Workshop of Zurbarán'.



Exhibited

Cádiz, Real Academia de Bellas Artes, Pintura Antigua, 1945.
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