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Saint Juan of Capistrano and Saint Bernardino

Maker

(artist)
1601-1667

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1653 - 1657

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.137

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Alonso Cano was one of the most influential artists in seventeenth-century Spain. Trained as a painter and sculptor in Seville, he subsequently worked at the court in Madrid and in Granada, where his style was widely imitated. Saint Bernardino and Saint Juan of Capistrano is a rare sketch for Cano’s altarpiece for the monastery of San Antonio y San Diego in Granada and epitomizes his rapid, expressive pen-and-ink style, with lines used sparingly and confidently.

Provenance

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, cat. 38, 1921, lot 370 (with D.1952.RW.138, 139, 140 and 141, all mounted together); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952), L.2228b (15 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Spanish Line - From Ribera to Picasso, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/10/2011-15/01/2012

Alonso Cano (1601-1667), Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain, 02/04/2009-17/05/2009

Alonso Cano, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 02/04/2001-15/06/2001 ...More

The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 11/02/1980-29/03/1980

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)

A selection of Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1956 ...Less

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Alonso Cano (1601-1667). Dibujos. Catálogo Razonado, Fundación Botín, Santander 2011
no. 55
Illus. p. 306
dates it circa 1653-57

Mulcahy, Rosemary, 'Review: Spanish drawings in the Courtauld Gallery. Complete catalogue. By Zahira Véliz' in 'The Burlington Magazine', September 2011 - pp. 646-47; CLIV
p. 646
Illus. no. 31 on p. 647

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 61
Illus. p. 191 ...More

Alonso Cano: dibujos, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2001
cat. no. 53
p. 165, no. 53
Illus. p. 165

Véliz, Zahira, Alonso Cano's drawings and related works, PhD thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, London 1998
p. 257, no. 48

Wethey, Harold E., Alonso Cano: pintor, escultor y arquitecto, Madrid 1983
p. 165, no. D.47
Illus. no. 118

The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1980
cat. no. 44

Wethey, Harold E., 'Los dibujos de Alonso Cano' in 'Estudios sobre literatura y arte dedicados al Profesor Emilio Orozco Díaz', Granada 1979
dates it 1653-57

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 24

A selection of Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1956
cat. no. 11

Wethey, Harold E., Alonso Cano: painter, sculptor, architect, Princeton, New Jersey 1955
p. 71
Illus. no. 106

Wethey, Harold E., 'Alonso Cano's drawings' in 'The Art Bulletin', 1952 - pp. 217-38; XXXIV, 3
p. 222, no. XXXIV
Illus. no. 21

Mayer, August L., 'Los dibujos espanoles de la coleccion Witt en Londres' in 'Arte Espanol', 1926-27 - pp. 2-4; VIII, 1
p. 3 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Support (removed and now missing, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, excised and now mounted separately with the drawing, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: upper right, graphite: "cano"; lower left, brown ink, 19th-century hand: "Alo C.". Support (removed and now missing, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: “137”; lower right, graphite: “Alonso Cano / Coll. Sir John Stirling Maxwell".

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