The Tears of Saint Peter (El Greco, San Diego)

The Tears of Saint Peter
ArtistEl Greco
Yearc. 1590–1595
SubjectSaint Peter
LocationSan Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, U.S.

The Tears of Saint Peter, or The Penitent Saint Peter, is an oil painting on canvas of c. 1590–1595 by El Greco, now catalogue number 1940.76 in the San Diego Museum of Art, which it entered in 1940.[1] It is signed δομήνικος θεοτοκóπουλος ε´ποíει. Later than the Barnard Castle version of the same subject, it is number 270 in the catalogue raisonné by Harold Wethey and 64-b in that of Tiziana Frati.[2]

Provenance

  1. José María de Zavala, Vitoria (1908 – c. 1926)
  2. Pedro y Antonio Verástegui, Vitoria (c. 1926 – 1929)
  3. Jacob Hirsch, New York (1939)
  4. Anne R. and Amy Putnam, San Diego, California (1940–1940)
  5. San Diego Museum of Art (1940)

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Penitent Saint Peter". San Diego Museum of Art. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Frati. La obra pictórica completa de El Greco. p. 102.
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