Old Masters Day Sale
Old Masters Day Sale
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.
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.
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, 1953 (lent by French & Co.).