The Penitent Saint Peter
Framed: 61 5/8 × 50 × 4 5/8 inches (156.53 × 127 × 11.75 cm)
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Spanish Painting, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, October 3-31, 1935, no. 55.
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, November 12, 1956-January 10, 1957.
El Greco to Goya, John Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, February 10-March 24, 1963; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, April 19-May 26, 1963, no. 13.
From Herrara to Velàzquez: Sevillian Painting at the Crossroads of 1600, Fundación Focus-Abengoa, Seville, Spain, November 29, 2005-February 28, 2006; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, March 5-May 28, 2006, no. 54, as San Pedro penitente.
Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
Purchased through Maxwell Blake by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
Luis Menendez Pidal, “Un cuadro de Velàzquez,” La Illustracion Español y Americana 56, no. 46 (December 15, 1912): 353, (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 37, (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez.
Spanish Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1935), (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez.
August L. Mayer, Velazquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of Pictures and Drawings (London: Faber and Faber, 1936), (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 38, (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez, as Saint Peter.
Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, Velazquez (London: 1943), 18, (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez.
Connoisseur 135, no. 544 (April 1955).
J.A. Gaya Nuño, La Pintura Española fuera de España (Madrid: 1958), 327, (repro.), erroneously as ‘attributed to Velazquez’.
Martin Sebastian Soria, Zurbarán (London: 1959), 26, (repro.), erroneously as by Castillo y Saavedra.
José Valverde Madrid, “El pinto Antonio del Castillo,” Boletin de la Real Academia de Cordoba 82 (1961): (repro.), erroneously as by Castillo y Saavedra.
Priscilla Muller, “Paintings from Spain’s Past at Indianapolis and Providence,” Art Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1963): 101-106, as ‘not by Castillo y Saavedra’.
“Noticias de Arte: Del Greco a Goya, Exposicion de Pintura Española en los estados unidos,” Goya, no. 54 (May-June 1963): 421.
José López-Rey, Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Œuvre (London: Faber and Faber, 1963), no. 28, (repro.), erroneously as ‘probably by Castillo y Saavedra’.
José Camón Aznar, Velázquez, vol. 1 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A., 1964), 246, (repro.), erroneously as by Velazquez.
Masterpieces of Religious Art, exh. cat. (Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 1968), 84, as Saint Peter Penitent.
Marilyn Stokstad, “Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 501-502, (repro.), as by a ‘follower of Velazquez’.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 132, (repro.), as by a ‘follower of Velazquez’, as The Penitent Saint Peter.
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Benito Navarrete Prieto, De Herrera a Velázquez: El primer naturalism en Sevilla, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2006), 245, (repro.), as by ‘Anónimo sevillano’, as San Pedro penitente,
