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)
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[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).]
Published ReferencesCharles B. Curtiss, Velasquez and Murillo (London: 1883), no. 309.
William Stirling-Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain, Vol. 3 (London, 1891), 996.
Albert F. Calvert, Murillo, A Biography and Appreciation (London, 1907), 172.
August L. Mayer, Murillo (Stuttgart: 1913), 9.
John D. Morse, Old Masters in America (1955), 114-117.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 211, illus. (b-w).
Art News (April 1956), 46 , illus.
Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura español fuera de españa (Madrid: 1958), cat. no. 1847.
Raleigh: The News and Observer (February 16, 1958), 11-12, illus.
J. Baticle, "La Vie des Musées," Revue du Louvre (1964), 96.
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 201, illus. (color) 209.
Ángulo, Iñiguez, Diego, Murillo, su vida, su arte, su obra, Vol. 2 (Madrid: 1981), 6.
Anthony Kerrigan, "El nuevo museo de Carolina del Norte y su colección de pinturas españolas," Goya 13 (1956), 56-60, illus. 57.
George Kubler, "El 'San Felipe de Heraclea' de Murillo y los cuadros del Claustro Chico," Archivo español de arte (1970), 11-31.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed. Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 221.
Edward J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 19, illus. (b-w) 60, also mentioned xi and illus. (color) vi.
Jürgen M. Lehmann, "Ein umstrittenes Frühwerk Murillos," Pantheon 44 (1986), 37-43, illus. 39.
Introduction to the Collections. rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 211.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Blessed Giles before Pope Gregory IX, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 156, illus. (color).
Suzanne L. Stratton, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Harry N. Abrams; Fort Worth, TX: in association with the Kimbell Art Museum, 2002), cat. no. 1, illus. (color) 113, also mentioned 16, 93, 124.
Odile Delenda, "Le cycle de tableaux pour le cloître des franciscains de Séville," in Dossier de L'Art, no 115 (January 2005), 26, illus. (color) 26.
El Joven Murillo (exhibition catalogue) (Bilbao, Spain: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2009), cat. no. 7, discussed 226, 228-29, illus. (color) 227; English cat. entry 530-31. El Joven Murillo (exhibition guide) (Seville: Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, 2009, no. 6, discussed and illus. (color) 25, detail (color) 25.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Blessed Giles before Pope Gregory IX, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 316, illus. (color) 317.
Enrique Valdivieso, Murillo: Catálogo Razonado de Pinturas (Madrid: Ediciones el Viso, 2010), cat. no. 9, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryManchester, "Art Treasures of the United Kingdom," 1857, no. 620.
Bristol, 1906, no. 187.
London, Grafton Galleries, 1913-14, cat. no. 156.
London, Spanish Art Gallery, 1938, cat. no. 17.
New York, NY, New York World's Fair, 1939, cat. no. 260.
Columbus, OH, Gallery of Fine Arts, 1941, cat. no. 4.
Toledo, OH, Museum of Art, 1941, cat. no. 73, text by Guidol.
Winter Park, FL, Morse Gallery, 1946, cat. no. 12.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, "21 Great Paintings," July 20-August 30, 1947, cat. no. 21, illus.
Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections," March 10-June 16, 2002; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 14-October 6, 2002, cat. no. 1, illus. (color) 113, also mentioned 16, 93, 124.
Bilbao, Spain, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, "El Joven Murillo," October 19, 2009-January 18, 2010; Seville, Spain, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, February 18-April 1, 2010, cat. no. 7, illus. (color); Seville exhibition guide no. 6, discussed and illus. (color) 24, detail (color) 25.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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