Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin

1. Ayala family chapel, Dominican convent of Saint John the Baptist, Quejana, near Amurrio, Álava; sold by the convent to Lionel Harris, Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1913 [see Sánchez Sauleda 2010/2011, pp. 102-3, 109-10, citing a letter of 14 December 1916 from Charles Deering to Miquel Utrillo; see also Portilla 1988, pp. 792, 813]; sold to Charles Deering (died 1927), Chicago, by 1916 [Sánchez Sauleda 2010/2011, citing a letter of 19 December 1916 to Miquel Utrillo indicating that he was shipping the altarpiece from New York to Sitges in January 1917; a photograph of about 1918 shows it installed at the Palau Maricel, Sitges]; shipped from Barcelona via New York in the fall of 1921 and deposited at the Art Institute of Chicago; given to Charles Deering’s daughters Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1924; on loan to the AIC from 1925 [receipt dated June 12, 20 [sic], 1925, in registrar’s records]; given to the Art Institute, 1928.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Don Florencio Janér, “Relicario de Nuestra Señora del Cabello,” Museo Español de Antiquëdades, vol. 8, pt. 1, Madrid, 1877, p. 190.
• Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa, “Panteón del Canciller Don Pero López de Ayala,” Boletín de la Sociedad española de excursions 24 (1916), pp. 161–64, 166.
• “El Retablo de Quejana del Canciller Ayala,” Boletín de la Sociedad española de excursiones 24 (1916), p. 246.
• Elías Tormo, “Una Nota Bibliográfica . . . y algo más,” Boletín de la Sociedad española de excursiones 24 (1916), pp. 154–60 (ill.).
• “El retaule de Quejana,” Vell i nou 3 (1917), pp. 472–76 (ill.).
• Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa, “Descripciones de Álava: Libro inédito escrito en 1880,” Ateneo (1918), pp. 4, 6.
• Valerian von Loga, Die Malerei in Spanien vom XIV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1923, p. 13, fig. 10.
• R.M.F., “A Fourteenth Century Spanish Retable and Altar Frontal,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20 (1926), pp. 95–99 (ill.; cover ill.).
• J. Allende-Salazar, Obras de arte español en los Museos de Norteamérica," Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología 3 (1927), pp. 105-106.
• W.A.P., “Two Panels Illustrating the Legend of Saint Christopher,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21 (1927), p. 7.
• Walter Dill Scott and Robert B. Harshe, Charles Deering, 1852–1927: An Appreciation, Boston, 1929, p. 50.
• Frank E. W[ashburn] Freund, “Ausstellungen und Neuerwerbungen der amerikanischen Museen,” Der Cicerone 22 (1930), pp. 65–67 (ill.).

Corpus of Christ

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Saint Michael and the Devil

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The Birth of Saint John the Baptist

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Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher

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Job

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Capital with the Adoration of the Magi

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Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher

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Saint John the Baptist

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