A Bishop Saint

1. Private collection, Spain, before 1931 [letter from Abris Silberman to Daniel Catton Rich, March 31, 1947, Art Institute Archives]; E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna, as Saint Augustine by Simon Marmion, by January 1931 [note by Max Friedländer on the reverse of a photograph in the Friedländer Archive, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. New York art market, 1934 [according to Angulo 1935, p. 302; this was probably Silberman’s New York gallery]. Dr. Oscar Bondy (died 1944), Vienna and New York ; his widow, Elisabeth Soinig Bondy, until 1947 [the painting was not among the objects sealed in Bondy’s Vienna apartment in 1938; for this list see Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens, Vienna, 2003, pp. 218-44; the letter from Silberman to Rich cited above indicates that the dealer had recently acquired the painting from Mrs. Bondy]; sold by E. and A. Silberman, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947 [purchased with deaccession funds].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Bruges, Groeningemuseum, The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting, 1430–1530, 2002, cat. 109.
• Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, La pintura gótica flamenco: Bartolomé Bermejo y su época, 2003, cat. 4.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Del Prado, Bartolomé Bermejo, October 9, 2018 - January 27 2019, cat. 9; Barcelona, Museu Nacional D'Art De Catalunya, February 14 - May 19, 2019.

• Diego Angulo Iñíguez, “Una nueva obra de Bartolomé Bermejo,” Revista española de arte 12 (1934/35), pp. 302, 326 (ill.).
• Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 7, pt. 2, Cambridge, Mass., 1938, pp. 874–75; vol. 10, 1950, pp. 352–54, fig. 143.
• José Gudiol Ricart, Pintura gótica, Ars hispaniae 9, Madrid, 1955, p. 266. Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española afuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 46, 111, no. 329.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 23.
• José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966, pp. 487, 493.
• Herbert Friedmann, Bartolomé Bermejo’s “Episcopal Saint”: A Study in Medieval Spanish Symbolism, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 149, no. 8, Washington, D.C., 1966, pp. 1–21, figs. 1, 4, 8, 11.
• Judith Florence Berg, “Bartolomé Bermejo,” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1969, pp. 103–04, 305–06, no. 12.
• José Gudiol, Pintura medieval en Aragón, Saragossa, 1971, p. 62.
• Eric Young, Bartolomé Bermejo: The Great HispanoFlemish Master, London, 1975, pp. 46–49, 64, 74, 133–34, pl. 24.
• Fabián Mañas Ballestín, Pintura gótica aragonesa, Saragossa, 1979, p. 170.
• Gianni Rebora et al., Bartolomé Bermejo e il trittico di Acqui, Acqui Terme, 1987, p. 69, fig. 37.
• Judith Berg Sobre, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350–1500, Columbia, Mo., 1989, p. 51 n. 7.

Ecce Agnus Dei

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Female Saint Holding Skull

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Saint Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child

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Saint Anthony of Padua

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Head of an Old Man

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Saint Francis Praying

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Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in the Clouds

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St. John the Baptist

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