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Property from a Spanish Private Collection

Juan Simón Gutiérrez

Santa Rufina

Lot Closed

December 5, 02:26 PM GMT

Estimate

26,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Spanish Private Collection

Juan Simón Gutiérrez

Seville 1644 - 1718

Santa Rufina


oil on canvas

unframed: 102.4 x 82.1 cm.; 40 1/4 x 32 3/8 in.

framed: 117.2 x 97.3 cm.; 46 1/8 x 38 1/4 in.

Wynn Ellis (1790-1875);
His sale, London, Christie's, 17 June 1876, lot 38 (sold together with its companion, Saint Justa, lot 37), for £231 to M. Col;
R.A. Tatton, Cuerdon Hall;
His sale, London, Christie's, 28 February 1947, lot 72, for £630 to Koetser;
With Frank Sabin, 1947 (when exhibited at the Antique Dealer Fair, London);
Maurice Harris, 1949;
With French & Co., New York, 1953;
From whom acquired, probably in 1953, by Henrique J. Brandt, Caracas (the Saint Justa acquired by the Allan C. Balch Foundation for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at around the same time);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 17 January 1992, lot 169 (as studio of Murillo);
Sale, Madrid, November 1999, lot 115 (as studio of Murillo), for Ptas 14,000,000 hammer;
Where acquired by the late father of the present owner.
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Madrid 1981, vol. II, pp. 277-78, under cat. nos 346-47, reproduced vol. III, fig. 610.