LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.08 in. (63.70 cm.) (height) by 20.98 in. (53.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House,. Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters , 1871, no. 65;. Leamington Spa, Royal Art Gallery, Re-opening Exhibition of Oil Paintings from the Cook Collection , 28 July - 30 August and 21 September - 15 November 1947, no. 14

Literature:

C. Curtis,. Velazquez and . Murillo , New York, London and Rivington 1883, p. 198, no. 201;. A.L. Mayer, Murillo, Des Meisters Gemälde , Stuttgart-Berlin 1913, p. 295, reproduced p. 183 (as 1675-82); . Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, belonging to Sir Frederick Cook Bart., Visconde de Monserrate , London 1907, p. 25, no. 22, in the Organ Room; . M.W. Brockwell, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt. , 3 vols, English, French, Early Flemish, German and Spanish Schools , vol. III, London 1915, p. 160, no. 523, reproduced (as displayed in the Organ Room, no. 21: 'clearly a very late work, as we may judge from the soft tonality and atmospheric effects'); . M.W. Brockwell, 'The Cook Collection Part III', Connoisseur , vol. L, January 1918, p. 9; . A.L. Mayer, Murillo, Des Meisters Gemälde , Stuttgart-Berlin-Leipzig 1923, p. 299, reproduced p. 189 (as 1675-82); . M.W. Brockwell, Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart , London 1932, p. 58, no. 523 (21); . J. Gaya Nuño, L'opera completa di Murillo , Milan 1978, p. 112, no. 290 (dated to 1675-80, 'forse dalla racolta del duca di Villahermosa'); . D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo , Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 221, no. 253, reproduced in black and white, vol. III, plate 329 (where dated to 1665-75); . E. Valdivieso, Murillo. Catalogo Razanado de Pinturas , Madrid 2010, p. 436, no. 245 (with incorrect sale date), reproduced in colour as a detail on p. 179 and on p. 436 (as about 1660-70). . ENGRAVED Manuel Alegre, Madrid, 1798 (dedicated to the Duque de Villahermosa

Provenance:

Don José António de Aragón, 14th Duke of Villahermosa (1785-1852), Madrid, by 1798;. The Reverend Richard Ridgeway Parry Mealy (1801-1870), Perfeddgoed, Bangor; . His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 11 June 1870, lot 113, for 130 guineas, to Colnaghi; . With Colnaghi, London; . Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt, Visconde de Monserrate (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1883, recorded in the Organ Room; . By descent to his son Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bt (1844-1920), Doughty House; . By descent to his son Sir Herbert Cook, 3rd Bt (1868-1939), Doughty House; . By descent to his son Sir Francis Cook, 4th Bt (1907-78), Doughty House and Cothay Manor, Somerset; . Thence by inheritance to his wife Brenda, Lady Cook; . By whom sold ('Property Sold at the Direction of Brenda, Lady Cook'), London, Christie's, 8 December 2005, lot 19; . Where acquired by the present owner