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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

the former; the latter: 177.5 x 85.8 cm

Description:

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Markings:

the former signed with initials and indistinctly dated lower right: AC. / fatiebat Anno.. 50., the latter signed with initials and dated lower right: A,C, / fatieba Anno 1650., inscribed on the reverse: REGALO HECHO POR LA CONDESA DEL MONTIJOA SU HIJA LA CONDESA DE TEBA 28 DE ENERO DE 1853

Literature:

Ramirez de Arellano & R. Diaz de Morales, Inventario-Catalogo Historico Artistico de Cordoba, Cordoba 1983, pp. 299-30;. Burlington Magazine, July 1928, vol. XXIII, p. XXIV (advertisement);. Pantheon, 1931, p. 300 (advertisement);. F.J. Sánchez Cantón, 'Dos cuadros fechados de Antonio del Castillo', in Archivo Español de Arte, 13, 1937, p. 159;. J.A. Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid 1958, nos. 565-566;. J. Valverde, 'El pintor Antonio del Castillo', in Boletín de la Real Academia de Cordoba, 82, 1961, nos. 12-13, and 1976, nos. 8 and 11;. P. Muller, The Drawings of Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan 1963, pp. 43-44;. F. Zueras Torrens, Antonio del Castillo: un gran pintor del Barrocco, Cordoba 1982, no. 139;. A.E. Pérez Sánchez, Pintura Barroca en España, Madrid 1992, p. 272;. M. Nancarrow and B. Navarrete, Antonio del Castillo, Madrid 2004, pp. 290-292, cat. nos. 80-81, both reproduced.

Provenance:

Probably the Convento de la Encarnación, Cordoba;. Collection of the Condesa del Montijo;. By whom given to her daughter, Eugenia María de Montijo de Guzman, Condesa de Teba (1826-1920), in 1853;. Sale ('Empress Eugénie Collection'), London, Christie's, 1 July 1927, lot 25, to Carroll, for 140 gns. (as Alonso Cano);. With the Carroll Gallery, London;. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 26 April 1929, lot 40, for 52 guineas to Walker (as Antonio del Castillo);. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 8 May 1931, lot 148 (as Antonio del Castillo);. Acquired at the above sale by Tomas Harris;. Private collection, Bohemia.