
Saint Romanus of Antioch and Saint Barulas
Francisco de Zurbarán · 1638
Provenance
Ownership history
- Church of San Roman, Seville, until at least 1800 [Cean Bermudez 1800]; removed by government decree and deposited in the Alcazar, Seville, 1810 [lmaz 1896, no. 11]; taken by Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769-1851), 1st Duke of Dalmatia, Paris, by 1812 [see the Getty Provenance Index database, F-23, which lists the painting in Sault's estate inventory of February 5, 1852, as no. 150; date of acquisition according to Delenda 2009]; sale of his estate, Galerie Lebrun, Paris, May 19-22, 1852, lot no. 28, presumably bought in [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; copies in curatorial file, and Baticle 1999]; by descent to his son, Napoleon-Hector Soult (1802-1857), 2nd Duke of Dalmatia, Paris [according to a postmortem inventory of his collection, dated January 18, 1858; Getty Provenance Index database, F-197, no. 9]; by descent; sold, collection of Marshal Soult, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 17, 1867, lot no. 6, for 5,330 francs [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; copy in curatorial file]. Sergei Ivanovich Stchoukine, Paris and Moscow, until 1910 [this and the following according to London 1913; date according to Delenda 2009]. Joachim Caravallo, Château de Villandry, France, from 1910 to 1914. Grafton Galleries, London, from 1914 to 1918 [Kehrer 1918; date according to Delenda 2009]. Charles Deering (1852-1927), Chicago and Miami, by 1918 [Arroyo 1918]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering) and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Spanish Old Masters in support of National Gallery funds and for the benefit of the Sociedad de Amigos def Arte Espanola, October 1913-January 1914, cat. 98.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June I-November 1, 1933, cat. 186.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June I-November 1, 1934, cat. 84.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, October 1948.
- London, National Gallery, Zurbarán, Oct. 1, 2026–Jan. 31, 2027, no cat. no, fig. 13; Paris, Musée du Louvre, Feb. 25–June 17, 2027; Art Institute of Chicago, Zurbarán: Divine Light, Feb. 28–June 17, 2027 [Paris and Chicago only].
Literature
Published references
- Juan Agustin Cean Bermudez, Diccionario historico de las mas ilustres profesores de las be/las artes en Espana vol. 6 (Madrid: Imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, 1800), 48.
- Paris, Galerie Lebrun, Vente de la Magnifique Galerie de Tableaux de Feu M. le Marechal-general Soult…, May 19, 1852, lot 28.
- Paris, Hotel Drouot, Catalogue des Tableaux provenant de la Galerie de Feu M. le Marechal General Soult, Duc de Dalmatie…, April 17, 1867, 9 lot 6.
- Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: école espagnole, vol. 4 (Paris: Libraire Renouard, 1869), 8.
- Justino Matute y Gaviria, "Adiciones y correcciones al tomo IX del 'Viaje de Espana' de D. Antonio Ponz. Carta III," Archivo Hispalense: revista historica, literariay artistica 3 (Seville: [Sociedad del Archivo Hispalense], 1887), 318.
- Manuel Gomez lmaz, Inventario de las Cuadros Sustraídos par el Gobierno Intruso en Sevilla el año de 1810 (Seville: E. Rasco, 1896), 61 no. 11.
- H[ippolyte] Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et a l'etranqer pendant les XVIII et XIX siècles (Paris: Maison d'éditions d'œuvres artistiques, 1912), 597.
- August L. Mayer, "Die Ausstellung Alterer Spanischer meister in den Grafton Galleries zu London," Zeitschrift fiir bildende Kunst 25 (1914): 72, 74, fig. 8.
- Hugo Kehrer, Francisco de Zurbarán (Munich: Hugo Schmidt, 1918), 82, 138, 145, fig. 40.
- Jose Martino Arroyo, Marycel (Barcelona: Revista de arquitectura, 1918), [40-1 ], 44, 54 (ill.).
- "Zurbaran's Saint Roman, the Martyr," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16, no. 4 (1922): 58-9 (ill.).
- August L. Mayer, Geschichte der Spanischen Malerei (Leipzig: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1922), 318, fig. 235.
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