Panel of an altarpiece: Christ before Pilate

Artist Lluís Borrassà Spanish (Catalan), b. Girona; active from 1380; d. Barcelona, between Dec 19, 1424 and Feb 23, 1425

Datecirca 1420–1425

MediumTempera, gold leaf, and silver leaf on panel

Dimensions31 x 23 1/2 in. (78.7 x 59. 7cm)
Frame: 34 1/8 x 27 3/8 x 3 in. (86.7 x 69.5 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.170

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ProvenanceCount Ambrozy Migazzi [Ambrozzy Migazzy], Malonya, Hungary [Mlynany, Czech Republic] early 20th century; E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1935; purchased by NCMA 1952.Published ReferencesC.R. Post, History of Spanish Painting (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930-66), Vol. 4, 526-27.

Walter W.S. Cook, "Exhibition of Spanish Paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art " The Art Bulletin 23, no. 3 (September 1941), 223.

Jose Guidiol Ricart, Borrassà (1953), 119, no. 182, illus. figs. 175, 176.

W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 203, illus. (b-w).

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de españa (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 415, illus. pl. 17.

Edward J. Sullivan,Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 4, illus. (b-w) 14, also mentioned xii.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 208.

Bernat Martorelli I la tardor del gòtic català: El context artistic del retaule de Púbol, Joan Molina Figueras, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Girona: Museu d'Art, 2003), 97, illus. (96), fig. 32 (as by Francesc Borrassà).

Francesc Ruiz i Quesada, "Francesc Borrassà," in L'art gòtic a Catalunya: Pintura II (Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2005), discussed and illus. (page numbers unknown).

Rafael Cornudella, et al, Cataluña 1400: El Gótico Internacional (exhibition catalogue) (Catalunya: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 2012), illus. (b-w), 46, fig. 8 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

William Brown, “Art + Science: A Collaboration with Duke University,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2013), 20–23, illus. (color) 23.

Exhibition HistoryToledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, “French and Flemish Primitive Exhibitions,”
November-December, 1935, cat. no. 13.

Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, “A Survey of Spanish Painting,” January, 1937, cat. no. 2.

Tulsa, OK, The Philbrook Art Museum, “Spanish Exhibition,” September-November, 1940, cat. no. 1.

Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, “Spanish Painting,” 1941, cat. no. 14.

Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Fine Arts Dept., “Exhibition of Medieval Art,” October 17-November 17, 1945, cat. no. 18.

New Orleans, LA, Delgado Museum of Art, “European Painting of Five Centuries,” January 8-February 5, 1950.

Hagerstown, MD, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, “The Life of Christ,” February 18-March 31, 1951.

Palm Beach, FL, Society of the Four Arts, “Spanish Painting,” January 11-February 6, 1952, cat. no. 4.

Bordeaux, France, “Les Primitifs Mediterraneens,” May 15-July 15, 1952, cat. no. 104.

Syracuse, NY, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, “Exhibition of Spanish Primitives,” 1957; Atlanta, Atlanta Art Assoc., 1957, cat. no. 27.

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