Lot 125
  • 125

Joan Macip, called Joan de Joanes

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Joan Macip, called Joan de Joanes
  • Christ carrying the cross
  • oil on panel, unframed

Provenance

Possibly Marqués de Scala, Valencia (see below).

Catalogue Note

Another, slightly larger, autograph version of the present composition, but with Christ depicted against a distant rocky landscape with figures walking up to Golgotha, and an arched top, is in the collection at the Colegio del Corpus Christi, Valencia.1

The coat-of-arms to the lower right is said to be that of the Marqués de Scala, a noble family from Valencia. The presence of their arms would indicate their ownership of the panel at some point in its history though the arms are now too damaged to be certain of this traditional identification.

1. See F. Benito Doménech, Joan de Joanes, Una Nueva Visión del artista y su obra, exh. cat., Valencia 2000, p. 112, cat. no. 27, reproduced p. 113.