Details
Circle of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville 1618-1682)
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
oil on canvas, unframed
6814 x 8918 in. (173.4 x 226.3 cm.)
Provenance
H. D. Owen, London, by 1812, until at least 1868.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, 1911.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 July 1980, lot 27, as 'Workshop of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo'.
Literature
C. B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, New York, 1883, p. 223, no. 267b.
Exhibited
Leeds, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 350, as 'Murillo' (lent by H. D. Owen).
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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This life-size painting relates closely to Murillo's Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine in the Museum of Cádiz, painted in 1682 as the centerpiece of the Church of the Capuchinos altarpiece, though here the format is horizontal and includes the figure of Saint Francis in place of two putti. There is another, smaller verison of the Cádiz composition, thought to be a study, currently in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Post Lot Text
This lot is offered without reserve which will be sold to the highest bidder regardless of the pre-sale estimate.

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