The Feast in the House of Simon

1. Possibly in the artist’s possession at the time of his death, 1614 [three versions of this subject were recorded in the 1621 inventory of all the goods owned by El Greco’s son, Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos, who was his father’s sole heir; however, no work of this subject appears in El Greco’s own estate inventory; see San Román 1927]; possibly by descent to his son, Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos (d. 1631), Toledo [the 1621 inventory of Jorge Manuel’s possessions, transcribed in San Román 1927, includes entries for three versions of this subject, listed as items 123–25].. Probably Guinea, Bilbao.4 Plasencia, Bilbao, before 1908 [according to Cossío 1908; this information cannot be verified, however]. Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Wagram, Paris, by 1908 [Cossio 1908 and Mayer 1926]; Galerie H. O. Miethke, Vienna, by 1911 Mayer 1911, p. 84]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, by 1914 [Kehrer 1914, p. 93; Mayer 1914]. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., Burlington, Vt., Feb. 7, 1929 [Art News 1929]; on loan to the Art Institute in 1930 [Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 1930]; acquired by the Art Institute as a purchase of the Winterbotham Fund, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 172.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 72.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 9 - September 10, 1939, cat. 62.
• Art Gallery of Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, February 4–March 5, 1944, cat. 30, as Christ in the House of Simon.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950 – February 11, 1951, cat. 29.
• Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, El Greco Exhibition, October 18–December 14, 1986, cat. 45; Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, January 6–March 1, 1987; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, March 11–March 24, 1987 [Tokyo only].
• Leningrad (St. Petersburg), State Hermitage Museum, Masterpieces of Western European Painting of the XVIth–XXth Centuries from the Museums of the European Countries and USA, October 17-November 30, 1989, cat. 7.
• Norfolk, Va., Chrysler Museum of Art, The Genius of El Greco: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, July 1–October 18, 1998, no cat.
• Toledo, Museo de Santa Cruz, El Greco: Painter and Master [Arte y Oficio], September 8-December 9, 2014, cat. 80 (ill.).
• Paris, Grand Palais, Greco, October 14, 2019–February 10, 2020, cat. 73; Art Institute of Chicago, El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, March 7–June 21, 2020, cat. 54.

• Manuel B. Cossío, El Greco, 2 vols. (Madrid: V. Suárez, 1908), 353–54, 602, no. 325; rev. ed. by Natalia Cossío de Jiménez (Barcelona: Editorial R.M., 1972), 217–18, 361, no. 54.
• August L. Mayer, El Greco: Eine Einführung in das Leben und Wirken des Domenico Theotocoupuli (Munich: Delphin, 1911), 54, 71 (ill.), 84; rev. ed., 1916, 27–28, 53, pl. 62.
• Hugo Kehrer, Die Kunst des Greco: Mit Funfundfunfzig Tafeln (München: H. Schmidt, 1914), 41–42, 93, pl. 19.
• August L. Mayer, “Die Ausstellung älterer spanischer Meister in den Grafton Galleries zu London,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 25 (1914): 71.
• August L. Mayer, El Greco. Eine Einfühlung in da Leben und Werken des Dominico Theotocopuli gennant El Greco. (Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1916), 27–28, pl. 62.
• August L. Mayer, “Paintings by El Greco in America I,” Art in America 4 (1916): 253–54, 257.
• August L. Mayer, Dominico Theotocopuli, El Greco: Kritisches und Illustriertes Verzeichnis des Gesamtwerke (Munich: F. Hanfstaengl, 1926), 9, no. 46a, pl. 44.
• F[rancisco] de B[orja de] San Román [y Fernández], “De la vida del Greco,” Archivo español de arte y arqueología 3 (1927): 298–99n121-26.
• J[ens] F[erdinand] Willumsen, La Jeunesse du peintre El Greco, vol. 2 (Paris: Les Editions G. Crès et. Cie., 1927), 657–58 (ill.), pl. 101.
• “Christ in the House of Simon by El Greco,” Art News 27, 21 (1929): 1 (ill.).
• Bulletin Art Institute of Chicago 24 (1930): 24 (cover ill.).
• Frank Rutter, El Greco (1541–1614) (New York: E. Weyhe, 1930), 100, no. 93, pl. 83.

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Female Saint Beholding Vision of Christ Child and Saint Joseph

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Dream and the Lie, El Greco's Leg

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