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Saint Lucy
Vergós Workshop · c. 1500
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sanctuary of the Virgin at Bellulla at Canovellas del Vallés, Barcelona, 1909 [Barraquer y Roviralta 1917, p. 407 and Post 1938, p. 472 n. 1, who noted that Barraquer published illustrations of Saint Lucy and a Crucifixion from the same altarpiece as they existed in the church in 1909]. Emili Cabot i Rovita, Barcelona, by 1915 [see Sánchez Sauleda 2014, p. 431]; sold 1 October 1915 through the agency of Miquel Utrillo to Charles Deering,“Marycel,” Sitges, near Barcelona, and Chicago [Sánchez Sauleda 2014, Martino Arroyo 1918, shows the paintings installed at “Marycel]; given to his daughters Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1924 [Art Institute Archives]; Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, in a division of their joint property, 1937 [Registrar’s records]; given to her son James Deering Danielson, 1970 [Registrar’s records]; given to the Art Institute, 1970.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Cayetano Barraquer y Roviralta, Los religiosos en Cataluña durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX, vol. 4, Barcelona, 1917, pp. 407, 453–54 (ill. opp. p. 464).
- José M. Martino Arroyo, Marycel, Publicaciones de Arquetectura, Barcelona, 1918, p. 46 (ill.).
- Elizabeth du Gué Trapier, Catalogue of Paintings (14th and 15th Centuries) in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1930, p. xxxvi.
- Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 7, Cambridge, Mass., 1938, pp. 472–73, fig. 168.
- Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 42, 331, nos. 2921–22.
- José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966, p. 411.
- Judith Berg Sobré, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350–1500, Columbia, Mo., 1989, fig. 24.
- Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 121-24, ill.
- Sebastià Sánchez Sauleda, “Entre Bernat Martorell i els Vergós: la col.lecció Deering i el patrimoni català a la diaspora” in Rosa Alcoy, ed., Art fugitiu: Estudis d’art medieval desplaçat, Barcelona, 2014, pp. 429-32, fig. 5.
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