Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Marques de la Cueva del Rey, sold to Galerie Heinemann
(Galerie Heinemann, Munich, sold to Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi)
Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence, Italy, by descent to his heirs
Family of Contini-Bonacossi, probably consigned to Pinakos, Inc.
(Pinakos, Inc./Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Marques de la Cueva del Rey, sold to Galerie Heinemann (Galerie Heinemann, Munich, sold to Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi) Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence, Italy, by descent to his heirs Family of Contini-Bonacossi, probably consigned to Pinakos, Inc. (Pinakos, Inc./Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). Goya y el nacimiento del liberalismo (Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment). Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 6-December 18, 1988); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (co-organizer) (January 18-March 26, 1989); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (May 9-July 16, 1989). Goya, un regard libre (Goya, Another Look). Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (December 11, 1998-March 14, 1999); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (April 17-July 11, 1999). Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). Rome, Valle Guilia, Galeria Nazionale d'arte Modera, 1930: "gli Antichi Pittori Spagnoli della collezione Contini-Bonacossi," cat. # 28, pl. XIX. CMA 1970: "Year in Review 1969," Bulletin LVII (January, 1970), cat. # 145, repr. pl. I (clr). Madrid, Spain, Prado Museum, October 4-December 18, 1988: "Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment," cat. # 22, pp. 50-55, repr. clr. p. 52, detail p. 53 (clr.) Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, January 18-March 26, 1989, New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 9-July 16, 1989 Lille, France: Palais de Beaux-Arts de Lille 12/11/98 - 3/21/99; Philadelphia Museum of Art 4/11/99 - 7/11/99 "Goya, un regard libre (Goya, Another Look)" Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 20 - May 29, 2005. "Masterworks from The Phillips Collection". Not in exh. cat.
This work belongs to a series depicting Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory, key figures of early Catholicism. Saint Ambrose (about AD 340–391), the bishop of Milan, resolved important theological conflicts within the church and worked effectively with advocates of Roman paganism. The low viewpoint and large scale suggest that this painting hung high on the wall of a religious institution, but its original location remains unknown. In the late 1700s, Spain expelled all the Jesuits and sparked a transformation of the church. Many of these reformers turned back to early church history for inspiration, and this painting was probably commissioned by one of these new organizations.
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 6 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.