Saint George Killing the Dragon. Bernat Martorell
1434/35
Tempera on panel
Height: 1,556 mm (61.26 in). Width: 981 mm (38.62 in).
Art Institute of Chicago
Level Second
room Gallery 203
Accession number 1933.786
Object history
English: Probably commissioned for the chapel of Saint George, Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona [Sobré in Wolff 2008]; Don Francesco de Rocabruna, Baron of Albi, by 1867 [lent by him to Barcelona 1867, along with the four lateral panels now in the Louvre, Paris, and a painting of the Virgin, now untraced]; Doña Josefa de Rocabruna (d. 1872), Barcelona [Sanpere y Miquel 1906, vol. 1, p. 195, vol. 2, p. 275, who cited Puiggarí 1890]; her estate, administered by the rector of the Escuelas Pías of Barcelona, following an 1872 arbitral judgment; sold by him on behalf of Doña Josefa's nephew Francesc Rocabruna to Don
José Ferrer-Vidal i Soler, Barcelona, by 1906, and in this collection until at least 1913 [according to Sanpere y Miquel 1906, vol. 1, p. 194; for Ferrer-Vidal I Soler, see Dieulafoy 1913 and Ricci 1913]. Charles Deering, Marycel, Sitges, near Barcelona, and Chicago, by 1919 [Berenson 1926 reports seeing it at Sitges; the painting was placed on loan at the Art Institute in 1921; loan agreement, Nov. 18, 1921, Art Institute Archives]; given to his daughters Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1924 [Art Institute Archives]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.
Exhibition history
English:
Barcelona, Academia de Bellas Artes, Exposición retrospectiva de obras de pintura, de escultura y artes suntuarias, 1867, nos. 2139-44.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 178 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 78.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, July 1939 (no cat.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June-14 September 2008, no cat.
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