
Saint Christopher Meets Satan; Saint Christopher before the King of Lycia
Martin de Soria · 1480–85
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly from the monastery of Piedra, near Saragossa [Gudiol 1953, p. 302,]. Charles Deering, Palau “Marycel,” Sitges, near Barcelona, and Chicago, before 1921 [a photograph shows the panels installed at “Marycel”; the paintings and other works from Deering’s collection were placed on loan at the Art Institute in 1921; loan agreement, Nov. 18, 1921, Art Institute Archives].; given to his daughters Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1924; Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, in a division of their joint property, 1937 [registrar’s records]; given to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- W.A.P., “Two Panels Illustrating the Legend of Saint Christopher,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21 (1927), pp. 5–7.
- Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 8, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, pp. 354–56, 368, 378, fig. 153.
- Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 9, Cambridge, Mass., 1947, p. 883.
- José Gudiol Ricart, Pintura gótica, Ars hispaniae 9, Madrid, 1953, p. 302.
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 43, 307, nos. 2679–80.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1962–63, p. 13.
- José Gudiol, Pintura medieval en Aragón, Saragossa, 1971, pp. 58, 83, no. 280.
- Fabián Mañas Ballestin, Pintura gótica aragonesa, Saragossa, 1979, p. 134.
- Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 116-21, ill.
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