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Christ among the Doctors

Maestro de los Reyes Católicos (Active in Castile in the late 15th century)

Generic classification
Painting
Object
Painting
Date
ca. 1495-1497
Century
Cultural context / style
Spanish Painting
Dimensions
53 5/8 x 36 5/8 in.
Material
Panel
Technique
Oil Painting
Iconography / Theme
Cristo entre los doctores
Provenance
Collection of Conde de las Almenas, José María de Palacio y Abárzuza (Madrid y Finca Canto del Pico, Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain)
Current location
The National Gallery of Art, Washington (Washington, United States)
Inventory Number in Current Collection
1952.5.43
Inscriptions / Marks

On the Mary´s mantle (deciphered with infrared reflectography): ENISHS·O IO·MO[?]S·SIE·E OE O·EI

Object history

It has been suggested that it comes from a convent or church in Valladolid in connection with the court of the Catholic Monarchs (Albert van der Put, 1922, ANGW). Before 1919 it was in the possession of the Count of Las Almenas in Madrid. That same year it was sold to Frank Partrige and Sons in London, passing to the house of Preston Pope Satterwhite in New York in 1933. It was acquired by Frenck & Co in New York, going to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation collection in New York in 1941, which donated it to the National Gallery of Washington in 1952.

Description

This painting, together with the scene of the Wedding at Cana in the same museum, is part of an ancient Castilian altarpiece of which other panels have survived in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco: the Annunciation and the Nativity; in the Denver Art Museum: the Adoration of the Kings; in the University of Arizona Museum of Art, the Visitation; and in the Havard Art Museum (Fogg Museum), the scene of the Presentation of the Child in the Temple.

In the interior of a Gothic church takes place the moment in which Jesus is explaining to the doctors of the temple of Jerusalem his argumentation in relation to the scriptures. This episode is narrated in the Gospel of Luke (2:51). His worried parents find him in the middle of the temple. The artist arranges them on the right, with the Virgin looking at her son with her hands in prayer, alluding to the message that the Virgin keeps all that is living inside her heart.

In the central stained glass window are placed the arms of the Catholic Monarchs, an element that directly links this painting, and the rest of the same set, with a royal commission.

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Bibliography
  • (1959): Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, p. 262.
  • BRANS, Jan V. L. (1952): Isabel la Católica y el arte Hispano-Flamenco, Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, Madrid, pp. 130-132.
  • EISLER, Colin (1977): Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian, Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford, pp. 177-178, 181, il. 182.
  • GAYA NUÑO, Juan Antonio (1958): La pintura española fuera de España (historia y catálogo), Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, p. 274.
  • HAND, John Oliver (2004): National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington and New York, pp. 70-71.
  • MARTÍNEZ RUIZ, María José (2005): "Luces y sombras del coleccionismo artístico en las primeras décadas del siglo XX: el conde de las Almenas", nº 307-308, en Goya.
  • MAYER, August L. (1913): Geschichte der spanischen Malerei, vol. 1, Leipzig, p. 166.
  • POST, Chandler Rathfon (1933): A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 4, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), pp. 418-428.
Citation:

Ana Diéguez Rodríguez, "Christ among the Doctors" in Nostra et Mundi. Cultural Heritage from Castile and Leon around the world, Fundación Castilla y León, 2025. https://inventario.nostraetmundi.com/en/work/222

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