El Greco

Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 307

Provenance

Probably in El Greco's possession at his death
his son Jorge Manuel Theotócópuli, Toledo, in 1621
The Infante Antonio María Felipe Luis de Orleáns, Duque de Montpensier (1824-1890), Seville
by inheritance to his son, the Infante Don Antonio de Orleáns, Duque de Galliera, Sanlúcar de Barremada, Cádiz
with Durand-Ruel, Paris by 1910
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin, by October 1915
The pianist Edwin Fischer (1886-1960), Basel and Berlin, by 1923
Eleanora Irme von Jeszenski von Mendelssohn, Berlin, who was divorced from Fischer in 1925, by 1926
T.R.H. Prince and Princess Paul of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Johannesburg, and Paris, by May 1934
consigned 1946 by Prince Paul to M. Knoedler and Co., London, Paris, and New York
sold February 1946 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1946.18.1

Other works by El Greco

The Holy Trinity
1577-79

Saint Jerome as Scholar
c. 1610

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata
c. 1585-90

The Knight with His Hand on His Chest

Crucifixion with Two Donors
1585-90