The Blessed Giles before Pope Gregory IX

Artist Bartolomé Estéban Murillo Spanish, 1617–1682

Datecirca 1645–1646

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions65 1/2 x 73 1/4 in. (166.4 x 186.1 cm)
Frame: 76 3/4 x 84 in. (194.9 x 213.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.178

On View

On view

ProvenanceSeville, San Francisco; Seville, Alcazar; Baron Mathieu de Faviers, Paris, until 1812 [?]; M. Aguado, Marqués de las Marismas, until 1843; M. Llubois, Paris; William Buchanan, London, until 1848; John Miles, Kingweston, Gloucstershire; by descent to Philip W. S. Miles and to P. Napier Miles, until 1937; with Tomas Harris, London; with Knoedler Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.
[Exhs.: Manchester 1857 (20); Bristol 1906 (187); London 1913-4 (156); London 1938 (17); NY 1939 (260); Columbus & Toledo 1941 (4); Winter Park 1946 (12).]

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