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Esau selling his birthright
Details
Spanish School, 19th Century
Esau selling his birthright
oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 40 5/8 in. (87.9 x 103.2 cm.)
with inventory number 'W.F. 337' (lower right).
Esau selling his birthright
oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 40 5/8 in. (87.9 x 103.2 cm.)
with inventory number 'W.F. 337' (lower right).
Provenance
Count Thurn, Naples.
Count Harrach, Palais Harrach, Vienna.
with Newhouse Galleries, 1952, from whom purchased by
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1952.
Count Harrach, Palais Harrach, Vienna.
with Newhouse Galleries, 1952, from whom purchased by
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1952.
Literature
A.R. von Perger, Die Kunstschätze Wiens, II, Trieste, 1854, pp. 515, 517, as 'Murillo'.
A. Gruss, Verzeichnis der gräflich Harrach'schen Gemäldegalerie zu Wein, Vienna, 1856, p. 77, no. 387, as 'Murillo'.
L. Alfonso, Murillo, el hombre, el artista, las obras, Barcelona, 1883, p. 219, as 'Murillo'.
C.B. Curtis, Velázquez and Murillo: A Historical and Descriptive Catalogue, London and New York, 1883, p. 286, no. 442, as 'Murillo'.
Katalog der erlaucht gräflich Harrach'schen Bildgalerie, Vienna, 1897, p. 97, no. 270, as 'Murillo'.
K. Baedeker, Austria-Hungary Including Dalmatia and Bosnia: Handbook for Travellers, Leipzig, 1905, p. 24, no. 270, as 'Murillo'.
A.L. Mayer, Murillo: Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913, pp. 104, 293, 302, 303, as 'Murillo'.
A.L. Mayer, Murillo, Berlin, 1923, p. 109, as 'Murillo'.
H. Ritschl, Katalog der erlaucht Gräflich Harrachschen Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna, 1926, p. 111, no. 270, inv. W. F. 337, as 'Murillo'.
'The State and Private Picture Galleries of Vienna' in Apollo, XIV, no. 81, September 1931, p. 158, as 'Murillo'.
R.W. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries, Raleigh, 1956, p. 85, no. 213, as 'Murillo'.
M.D. Hill, 'Representations of the Old Testament' North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin, I, 2, 1957, pp. 9, 11, as 'Murillo'.
J.A. Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 249, 250, no. 1942, as 'Murillo'.
J.A. Gaya Nuño, L'Opera completa di Murillo, Milan, 1978, pp. 117, no. 367, as 'Murillo'.
D.A. Iñiguez, Murillo: su vida, su arte, su obra, Madrid, 1981, II, p. 350, as 'probably not Spanish'.
E.J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings, Raleigh, 1986, pp. 99-100, no. 32, as '19th-century'.
A. Gruss, Verzeichnis der gräflich Harrach'schen Gemäldegalerie zu Wein, Vienna, 1856, p. 77, no. 387, as 'Murillo'.
L. Alfonso, Murillo, el hombre, el artista, las obras, Barcelona, 1883, p. 219, as 'Murillo'.
C.B. Curtis, Velázquez and Murillo: A Historical and Descriptive Catalogue, London and New York, 1883, p. 286, no. 442, as 'Murillo'.
Katalog der erlaucht gräflich Harrach'schen Bildgalerie, Vienna, 1897, p. 97, no. 270, as 'Murillo'.
K. Baedeker, Austria-Hungary Including Dalmatia and Bosnia: Handbook for Travellers, Leipzig, 1905, p. 24, no. 270, as 'Murillo'.
A.L. Mayer, Murillo: Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913, pp. 104, 293, 302, 303, as 'Murillo'.
A.L. Mayer, Murillo, Berlin, 1923, p. 109, as 'Murillo'.
H. Ritschl, Katalog der erlaucht Gräflich Harrachschen Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna, 1926, p. 111, no. 270, inv. W. F. 337, as 'Murillo'.
'The State and Private Picture Galleries of Vienna' in Apollo, XIV, no. 81, September 1931, p. 158, as 'Murillo'.
R.W. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries, Raleigh, 1956, p. 85, no. 213, as 'Murillo'.
M.D. Hill, 'Representations of the Old Testament' North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin, I, 2, 1957, pp. 9, 11, as 'Murillo'.
J.A. Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 249, 250, no. 1942, as 'Murillo'.
J.A. Gaya Nuño, L'Opera completa di Murillo, Milan, 1978, pp. 117, no. 367, as 'Murillo'.
D.A. Iñiguez, Murillo: su vida, su arte, su obra, Madrid, 1981, II, p. 350, as 'probably not Spanish'.
E.J. Sullivan, Catalogue of Spanish Paintings, Raleigh, 1986, pp. 99-100, no. 32, as '19th-century'.
Exhibited
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Viennese Private Galleries (Czernin, Harrach, Schwarzenberg), 1947, no. 32.
Houston, Temple Emanuel, Festival of the Bible in the Arts, 1961.
Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art, Art of Spain, 1971, p. 16.
Houston, Temple Emanuel, Festival of the Bible in the Arts, 1961.
Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art, Art of Spain, 1971, p. 16.
Engraved
J. Halm
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