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From the Grand Béguinage of Louvain, Belgium; Jules Frésart, Liège (1882–sold by 1892, to Figdor); Dr. Albert Figdor, Vienna (by 1892–until d. 1927); his posthumous sale, Paul Cassirer, Berlin (September 29–30, 1930, no
Arthaud, 1934. p. 196, ill. p. 200. Borchgrave d’Altena, J. de.
For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
Madrid, 1924, p. 122, ill. opp. p. 122, as a self-portrait.
Lucerne: Verlag Räber & Cie, 1964. no. 28, p. 16.
Inscription: Inscribed in Greek: [On lid] Here is your son…Here is your Mother (on either side of Christ’s head); Jesus; Mother of God; John; [on lid moving clockwise from upper left] Saint Demetrios; Saint Eustathios; Saint Lawrence; Luke; Mark; Thomas; James; Saint Damianos; Saint Kosmas; Saint Gregory the Miracle-Worker; Bartholomew; Matthew; Jude; Simon; [on side moving clockwise from upper left] Saint Anastasios; Saint Nicholas; Saint Platon; Saint Theodore; Saint Prokopios; Saint George; Saint Merkourios; Saint Eustratios; Saint Panteleimon; Saint Andrew; Saint John; Saint Paul; Saint Peter; [inside lid] Hail, full of grace!; The Nativity; Here is your son
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914. p. 18, ill. opp. p. 12.
From the Passion of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1913. p. 199.
Said to be from Chaian, Eupatoria district, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (Shcheglov and Katz 1991) In the 1880s, found in the village of Chaian, Eupatoria district, Crimea, by a local peasant; 1880s-90s, said to have been acquired by Islam-Ali, the father of a certain Abdulla-Islam-Ali-Oglu, purchased from a local peasant; with Islam-Ali, Eupatoria district, Crimea; 1914, offered for sale to the Russian Archaeological Institute in Istanbul by an anonymous dealer; [before 1918, acquired by Schepsel Gokhman (Hochmann), probably purchased from an anonymous dealer]; [with Schepsel Gokhman (Hochmann), Odessa (later Berlin); [before 1927, acquired by Kurt W
Bulletin of the Bachstitz Gallery. p. 36. Richter, Gisela M. A. 1931.
Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
Mann, 1967. p. 50. Pächt, Otto.
Danel, 1889. p. 43, no. 151 (possibly this shield).
(p. 239). Neue Galerie New York.
The International Studio 76 (October 1922). p. 48, ill. p. 41.
