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image of Saint Ildefonso
El Greco (painter)
Greek, 1541 - 1614
Saint Ildefonso, c. 1603/1614
oil on canvas
Overall: 112 x 65.8 cm (44 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.) framed: 135.4 x 89.9 x 6.7 cm (53 5/16 x 35 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.83
From the Tour: El Greco
Object 6 of 8

1875Tillot, Charles S. Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite de décès de Jean-François Millet, peintre. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10-11 May, 1875: ix.
1906Lafond, Paul. "Domenikos Theotokopuli dit Le Greco." Les arts 58 (1906): 25-26.
1908Cossío, Manuel B. El Greco. Madrid, 1908: 334, 598-599, no. 299 (also rev. ed., ed. Natalia Cossío Jímenez. Barcelona, 1972: 194, 383, no. 255).
1911Mayer, August L. El Greco. Munich, 1911: 83.
1918Frappart, A. "Chronique des ventes." Les arts 168 (1918): 26.
1920Field, Hamilton Easter. Editorial. The Arts 1 (1920): 6, repro. 7.
1926Mayer, August L. Domenico Theotocopuli, El Greco. Munich, 1926: 46, no. 287, pl. 63.
1928Burroughs, Bryson. "Spanish Paintings from El Greco to Goya." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 23 (1928): 39, repro. 40.
1930Rutter, Frank. El Greco. New York, 1930: 96, no. 67.
1936Holmes, Sir Charles J. Self & Partners (Mostly Self). London, 1936: 340.
1937Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 42-43.
1937Legendre, Maurice and Alfred Hartmann. Domenikos Theotokopoulos Called El Greco. Paris, 1937: 433, repro.
1938Goldscheider, Ludwig. El Greco. London, 1938: pl. 181 (also 1954 rev. ed.: pl. 187).
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 92.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 215.
1945Cook, "Spanish Paintings" 1945, 73-74, fig. 5.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): xii, repro.
1950Camón Aznar, José. Dominico Greco. 2 vols. Madrid, 1950: 2:871, 1381, no. 495, fig. 676 (also 1970 rev. ed., 2:880, 1356, no. 500, fig. 740).
1958Gaya Nuño, La pintura española 1958, 206, no. 1397.
1960Evans, Grose. Spanish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Ten in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 18, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 20.
1962Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. 2 vols. Princeton, 1962: 1:fig. 113; 2:19 (under no. 23), 239, no. X-361. (also Spanish ed. 2 vols., Madrid, 1967: 1:pl. 117; 2:34 [under no. 23], 254-255, no. X-361).
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 309, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 62
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 54, repro.
1969Manzini, Gianna, and Tiziana Frati. L'opera completa del Greco. Milan, 1969: no. 125e.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 162, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 237, no 302, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 186, repro.
1990Brown, 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: 43-47, color repro. 45.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 81, repro.
1993Griswold, Susanna P. "Two Paintings by El Greco: Saint Martin and the Beggar." Studies in the History of Art 41 (1993): 133, 142, 148, repro. no. 3.

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