This is the second sheet from the series of apostles pictures representing Saint Peter, though the key at the right edge is only suggested. This is one of the drawings that assures the attribution to Francisco de Herrera the Elder for the entire series. The painting in Córdoba's Museo de Bellas Artes that is inscribed in the bottom right “S. PETRVS” follows the drawing in almost every respect; however, in the painting, the head is slightly less inclined.[1]
Thus the presumed parallel drawn in the 1966 Hamburg exhibition catalogue[2] to the head of a saint (possibly Saint Paul) in the Prado,[3] which was rejected by Antonio Martínez Ripoll as well as Diego Angulo Iñiguez and Alfonso Pérez Sánchez, has been supplanted by a more convincing argument.

Jens Hoffmann-Samland


1 Saint Peter, 44 7/8 x 3 11/2 in. (114 x 89 cm), Córdoba, Museo de Bellas Artes, inv, no. CE2335P.
2 Stubbe (dir.) 1966.
3 Head of a Saint with Throat Cut, 20 x 25 5/8 in. (51 x 65 cm), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, inv. no. D 3058.

Details zu diesem Werk

• Beschriftung

  Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso in der Mitte nummeriert: "57" (Bleistift, unterstrichen)

• Provenienz

  [José Atanasio Echeverría]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio/Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (from 1874 to 1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of the property of Frederick William Cosens (from November 11 to 21, 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London (from November 1890 to July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (July 14, 1891).

• Bibliographie

  Tre siglos de dibujo sevillano, Alfonso Emilio Pérez Sánchez; Hospital de los Venerables, 1995, S. 123, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 38

  Antonio del Castillo, 1616-1668, Dibujos, Catálogo Razonado, Benito Navarrete Prieto, Fuensanta García de la Torre; Herausgeber: Fundacción Marcelino Botín, 2008, Abb. S. S. 119, Abb.-Nr.

  The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, with contributions by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Gabriele Finaldi, José Manuel Matilla u. a., 2014, S. 40-41, Abb., 213, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 72

  Spanische Zeichnungen von El Greco bis Goya, Wolf Stubbe; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1966, S. 139a-k, Abb. S. fig. 14, Abb.-Nr.

  Spanish Baroque Drawings in the Sperling Bequest., Jonathan Brown, 1973, S. 377(fig. 34 for one of the works from this series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; as Herrera the Younger), Abb.-Nr.

  Francisco de Herrera el Viejo, Martínez Ripoll, 1978, Abb. S. fig. 3, Abb.-Nr.

  El dibujo español de los Siglos de Oro, Pérez Sánchez; Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General del Patrimonio Artístico, Archivos y Museos, 1980, S. 74 and 19-21, Abb. S. ill. XXXIV (Herrera the Elder and school), Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 132

  A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, vol. III Seville School 1600 to 1650, Angulo Íñiguez and Pérez Sánchez; Herausgeber: Harvey Miller Publisher, 1985, S. 19-21, Abb. S. pls. IV-VI, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 10

  Sobre Herrera el Viejo, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez und Benito Navarrete Prieto; Herausgeber: Archivo Español de Arte 276, S. 365-87, esp. 375, Abb. S. fig. 19, Abb.-Nr.

  De Herrera a Velázquez. El primer naturalismo en Sevilla, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez und Benito Navarrete Prieto; Fundación Focus-Abengoa, Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes, 2005, S. 140, 144, nos 7-10, Abb. S. fig. 109, Abb.-Nr.

  Recently Acquired Spanish Baroque Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carmen Bambach, 1999, S. 409, Abb. S. fig. 2, Abb.-Nr.

  The Spanish Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Kunsthalle. Hamburg, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, 2014, S. 6-10, Abb., Abb.-Nr.

  Herrera el Mozo y el Barroco total, Herausgeber: Benito Navarrete Prieto, 2023, S. 131, Abb. S. 132, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 2