Provenance
Don José de Madrazo y Agudo, Madrid [d.1859], by 1856;[1] by inheritance to his son, Don Federigo de Madrazo y Kuntz [d. 1894], Madrid.[2] Marqués de Salamanca [1805-1866], Madrid;[3] (his sale, Paris, 3-6 June 1867, no. 155, as by Hugo van der Goes).[4] Don Pedro de Madrazo, Madrid, until 1909; (Durlacher, London), by 1909.[5] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), September 1912. (Kleinberger, New York), May-June, 1914;[6] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), June 1914; purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[7] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] _Catalogo de la Galeria de Cuadros Del Excmo. Sr. D. José de Madrazo_ (Madrid, 1856), 519.
[2] Unverified, but very likely; information from Duveen Brothers brochure in NGA curatorial files.
[3] _Catalogo de la galeria de Cuadros de la posesion de Vista-Alegre, de propriedad del Excmo. Sr. Marqués de Salamanca_ (Madrid, 1865), no. 619 (copy in NGA curatorial files).
[4] The Getty Provenance Index names a Guadré as the buyer at the 1867 sale, and records that the sale was held at Pillet, Paris. It lists its source as "procés verbal (Arch. Paris D48E358)".
[5] Duveen Brothers brochure in NGA curatorial files. W.H. James Weale, "_The Risen Saviour Appearing to His Mother_: a masterpiece by Roger de la Pasture," _Burlington Magazine_ 16 (December 1909), 159, cites the painting as being with Durlacher and mentions the previous owner as Pedro de Madrazo.
[6] Kleinberger archives, card no. 9561, department of European painting, Metropolitan Museum. John O. Hand (as per n. 3 above), 256, n. 5, acknowledges Lorne Campbell for bringing this information to his attention, and Mary Sprinson de Jesús for access to the files.
[7] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.
Accession Number
1937.1.45
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
overall: 163 × 93 cm (64 3/16 × 36 5/8 in.) | framed: 182.88 × 115.57 × 11.43 cm (72 × 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection