Sepúlveda

1909

Ignacio Zuloaga

Artist, Spanish, 1870 - 1945

Closely clustered buildings with warm white or golden-yellow walls and terracotta-brown and red roofs nestle in a valley between emerald-green hills in this square landscape painting. A band of grass stretches across the bottom edge of the canvas so we look over the valley and down onto the roofs. The buildings are outlined in royal blue or ivory white, and the sky above is skimmed with white over a darker blue background. The scene appears to be thinly painted or scrubbed so layers show through in many areas.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 57.9 x 62.1 cm (22 13/16 x 24 7/16 in.)
    framed: 76.8 x 81.3 x 5 cm (30 1/4 x 32 x 1 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.235

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hugh Lennox Bond, Jr. [1858-1922], Baltimore, probably by 1916;[1] his estate; (sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 11 January 1923, no. 63); W. E. Charles;[2] purchased by (C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York); sold 18 December 1924 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[3] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] Christian Brinton, ed., Exhibition of Paintings by Ignacio Zuloaga, under the Auspices of Mrs. Lydig. [exh. cat., The Brooklyn Museum, traveling exhibition] Brooklyn, 1916-1917, 47, notes that this painting was then in an American private collection. For biographical information on Bond, see Who Was Who in America(Chicago, 1943): 1:114.
[2] American Art Journal 20 (1923): 280, no. 63, and annotated sale catalogue in NGA Library.
[3] Sale record from the Chester Dale papers, copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1909

  • Paintings by Ignacio Zuloaga, The Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1909, no. 28, repro.

1910

  • Exposición internacional de arte del centenario, Buenos Aires, 1910, no. 20.

1925

  • Ignacio Zuloaga Exhibition, The Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 1925, no. 50.

1946

  • Memorial Loan Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by Zuloaga, French & Co. Inc., New York, 1946, no. 2, as San Sepulveda, Landscape.

Bibliography

1950

  • Lafuente Ferrari 1950, 228, no. 283, as Paisaje de Sepúlveda.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 141.

  • Paintings other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 19, repro.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 128, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 380, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 443, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: I. Zuloaga

Wikidata ID

Q20191304

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