Keywords: Domenikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco - The Assumption of the Virgin - Google Art Project.jpg Google Art Project Q11837891 creator El Greco other date - 1577 1579 1541 Crete 1541 1614 Toledo 1614 Domenico called El Greco male 485008 Theotokópoulos Spanish 1541 - 1614 /collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/artwork/the-assumption-of-the-virgin-domenikos-theotokopoulos-called-el-greco/454046/ 87479 Domenikos Theotokópoulos called El Greco painter /artist/el-greco/4129011/ 4129011 /collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/ The Art Institute of Chicago 356038 http //www artic edu/aic/ 12/7/2011 4 40 43 PM /collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/artwork/the-assumption-of-the-virgin-domenikos-theotokopoulos-called-el-greco/454046/ 1577 1577-79 Oil on canvas Commissioned 1577 by Don Diego de Castilla for the convent church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo Toledo; installed with other paintings in the main retable by September 1579; sold c 1830 to the Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza died 1875 Madrid and later Pau France but confiscated from him by the Spanish government and installed in the Museo Nacional de la Trinidad Madrid in 1835 Lavice 1864 recorded that the Assumption was on display in the Museo Nacional de Pinturas but this cannot be confirmed; returned to Don Sebastiàn in 1861; his estate in custody of the Spanish government 1875-87 see María Teresa Baratech Zelama La testamentario del Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza Archivo español de arte 62 1989 pp 372-77 for the status of his estate; his widow the Infanta María Cristina de Borbón died 1902 Aranjuez and Madrid; offered for sale Madrid October 1902 no 2 but bought in then lent by the Infanta's heirs to the Museo del Prado Madrid 1902-04 see Cossío 1908 p 594 no 279; purchased from them by Galerie Durand-Ruel Paris for 100 000 frs 17 000 October 1904 with funds provided by Henry O Havemeyer New York see Havemeyer 1961 p 155; sold to the Art Institute July 17 1906 True 4032 454046 True 1579 /collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/level/second-level/805195/ Second Level 3/24/2012 2 34 31 AM 1906 99 http //www artic edu/aic/collections/artwork/87479 http //www artic edu/aic/copyright html The Art Institute of Chicago Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague Painting 1570 1580 w2118 x h4032 cm 1577-79 False 0 51171875 object /collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/level/second-level/805195/gallery-211/424039/ Gallery 211 the-assumption-of-the-virgin-domenikos-theotokopoulos-called-el-greco The Assumption of the Virgin a 2118 en Pau Salons de l'ancien Asile de Pau Tableaux appartenant aux héritiers de feu Msg l'Enfant don Sébastien de Bourbon et Bragance 1876 no 668 <br />Madrid Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura Exposición de las obras de Domenico Thetocopuli llamado El Greco 1902 no 6 <br />Art Institute of Chicago A Century of Progress 1933 no 169 pl 25 <br />Art Institute of Chicago A Century of Progress 1934 no 70 en Inscribed on paper at lower right in Greek Domenikos Theotokopoulos Cretan displayed this in 1577 en Commissioned 1577 by Don Diego de Castilla for the convent church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo Toledo;<br />installed with other paintings in the main retable by September 1579;<br />sold c 1830 to the Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza died 1875 Madrid and later Pau France but confiscated from him by the Spanish government and installed in the Museo Nacional de la Trinidad Madrid in 1835 Lavice 1864 recorded that the Assumption was on display in the Museo Nacional de Pinturas but this cannot be confirmed;<br />returned to Don Sebastiàn in 1861;<br />his estate in custody of the Spanish government 1875-87 see María Teresa Baratech Zelama La testamentario del Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza Archivo español de arte 62 1989 pp 372-77 for the status of his estate;<br />his widow the Infanta María Cristina de Borbón died 1902 Aranjuez and Madrid;<br />offered for sale Madrid October 1902 no 2 but bought in then lent by the Infanta's heirs to the Museo del Prado Madrid 1902-04 see Cossío 1908 p 594 no 279;<br />purchased from them by Galerie Durand-Ruel Paris for 100 000 frs 17 000 October 1904 with funds provided by Henry O Havemeyer New York see Havemeyer 1961 p 155;<br />sold to the Art Institute July 17 1906 special url_id 0wG7A7al0WzGWg PD-old-100-1923 1614 Google Art Project works by El Greco Assumption of Mary by El Greco Spanish paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago 1570s paintings from Italy 1577 oil on canvas paintings in the United States 16th-century religious paintings in the United States Paintings of Virgin Mary in the United States 1570s religious paintings |