Saint Luke

Original Language TitleSan Lucas

Artist After Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Greek, 1541 - 1614)

Dateprobably 18th century

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 14 1/4 × 11 inches (36.2 × 27.94 cm)

Credit LineGift of David Douglas Duncan

Object number2015.56

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Painting

DescriptionSet against a murky dark background, an elderly, bearded man turns to the left as he looks off into the distance. The half-length figure holds a large book with his left hand and clasps a brush with his right. He wears yellow cloak draped over his right shoulder and a voluminous blue robe with marked folds running up the length of his left arm.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Provenance

Ciriaco Nieto Pérez, called Linker (1875-1936), Bilbao, by 1936;

With José Camón Aznar (1898-1979), Madrid, by 1956;

Purchased from Aznar by David Douglas Duncan (b. 1916), Rome and Mouans-Sartoux, France, by 1956 (1);

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.

NOTES:

[1] According to Halldor Soehner, “Katalog der Gemälde Grecos, seines Ateliers und seiner Nachfolge in Spanischem Besitz, Teil II,” Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 9/10 (1958/59): no. 213, p. 222, the painting was in the collection of David Douglas Duncan by 1945. David Douglas Duncan writes in his letter to Julian Zugazagoitia, Director, June 19, 2015, NAMA Curatorial files that he purchased the painting from Aznar in 1956.

Published References

Halldor Soehner, “Katalog der Gemälde Grecos, seines Ateliers und seiner Nachfolge in Spanischem Besitz, Teil II,” Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 9/10 (1958/59): no. 213, p. 222.

Harold E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, vol 2, Catalogue Raisonné (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962), 246.

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