Saint Martin and the Beggar

El Greco (painter)
Greek, 1541 - 1614
Saint Martin and the Beggar, 1597/1599
oil on canvas with wooden strip added at bottom
Overall: 193.5 x 103 cm (76 3/16 x 40 9/16 in.) framed: 215.3 x 135.9 x 12.7 cm (84 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 5 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.25

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1845	Amador de los Rios, José. Toledo pintoresco o descripción de sus más célebres monumentos. Madrid, 1845: 186.
1857	Parro, Sisto Ramón. Toledo en la mano o descripción histórico-artística de la magnífica catedral y de los demás célebres monumentos. 2 vols. Toledo, 1857: 2:320.
1890	Palazuelos, El Vizconde de. Toledo: guía artísticopráctica. Toledo, 1890: 958.
1906	Lafond, Paul. "La Chapelle San José de Tolède et ses peintrures du Greco." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 36 (1906): 388, repro. 387.
1907	Thieme-Becker 1907-1950, vol. 33 (1939), 6.
1908	Cossío, Manuel B. El Greco. Madrid, 1908: 304-308, 340, 588, no. 242, pl. 46 (also 1972 rev. ed., ed. Natalia Cossío Jímenez. Barcelona, 1972: 174-175, 385-386, no. 282, fig. 53).
1909	Calvert, Albert F., and C. Gasquoine Hartley. El Greco. London, 1909: 122-123, pl. 94.
1911	Mayer, August L. El Greco. Munich, 1911: 40, 81.
1916	Widener 1916, unpaginated, repro.
1923	Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923 (unpaginated) unpaginated, repro.
1926	Mayer, August L. Dominico Theotocopuli, El Greco. Munich, 1926: 48, no. 297.
1930	Rutter, Frank. El Greco. New York, 1930: 51, 62, 97, no. 77.
1931	Mayer, August L. El Greco. Berlin, 99, 103-104.
1931	Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 30, repro.
1937	Legendre, Maurice, and Alfred Hartmann. Domenikos Theotokopoulos Called El Greco. Paris, 1937: 459, repro.
1938	Goldscheider, Ludwig. El Greco. London, 1938: pl. 116.
1940	Widener, Peter A. B. Without Drums. New York, 1940: 59-60.
1941	Gudiol y Ricart, José. Spanish Painting. Exh. cat., Toledo [Ohio] Museum of Art. Toledo, 1941: 66, fig. 42.
1942	Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 5.
1945	Cook, "Spanish Paintings" 1945, 66-70, fig. 2.
1948	Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 30, no. 621, repro.
1948	Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 30, repro.
1950	Camón Aznar, José. Dominico Greco. 2 vols. Madrid, 2:698-703, 1382, no. 522, figs. 533, 538 (also 1970 rev. ed., 2:708-720, 1367, no. 523, figs. 587-589).
1952	Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 78, color repro.
1956	Guinard, Paul. El Greco. Translated by James Emmons. Cleveland, 1956: 26.
1957	Soehner, Halldor. "Ein Hauptwerk Grecos: die Kapelle San José in Toledo." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 9 (1957): 212-215, figs. 19, 22-23.
1957	Soehner, Halldor. "Greco in Spanien" MunchJb 8 (1957); 162-164, 167, fig. 39; Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 9/10 (1958/1959): 190, under nos. 56-57.
1957	Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 36, 138
1958	Gaya Nuño, La pintura española 1958, 199, no. 1337, fig 108.
1961	Soehner, Halldor. Una obra maestra de El Greco: la Capilla de San José de Toledo. Translated. Madrid, 1961: 29-30, pl. 15-16.
1962	Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. 2 vols. Princeton, 1962: 1:47, figs. 116-118; 2:13, no. 18 (also Spanish ed. Madrid, 1967: 1:63, pls. 100-102; 2:28, no. 18).
1965	Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 62
1966	Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:200, color repro.
1968	European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 54, repro.
1969	Manzini, Gianna, and Tiziana Frati. L'opera completa del Greco. Milan, 1969: no. 105-C, color pl. 16.
1973	Gudiol y Ricart, José. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. New York, 1973: 176, 349, no. 135, color fig. 162 (also 1983 ed.: 176, 349, no. 135, color fig. 162).
1975	Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique, and José Manuel Pita Andrade. El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years. Translated by Robert E. Wolf. New York, 1975: 158, no. 58, fig. 75.
1975	European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 162, repro.
1976	Davies, David. El Greco. London, 1976: 14, no. 22, color pl. 22.
1978	King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 38, pl. 17.
1979	Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 60, pl. 43, color repro.
1984	Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 237, no. 301, color repro.
1985	European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 187, repro.
1990	El Greco of Crete: Exhibition on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his birth. Exh. cat. Iraklion, Crete, Greece, 1990: 238, fig. 1, 371.
1990	Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 47-51, repro. 49.
1992	National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 80, repro.
1993	Griswold, Susanna P. "Two Paintings by El Greco: Saint Martin and the Beggar." Studies in the History of Art 41 (1993): 133, 140-148, repro. no. 1.
1997	Tomlinson, Janis. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561-1828, New York, 1997, no. 27, repro.

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