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Title

St. Ursula Preaches to the Virgins. Fragment of an altarpiece from the church of San Pablo, Palencia

painter

Mateu, Jaume [attributed to] (Active in Valencia between 1402-1452)

Generic classification
Painting
Object
Painting
Date
ca. 1450
Century
Mid 15th c.
Cultural context / style
International Gothic
Dimensions
45,86 x 24, 40 in
Material
Panel
Technique
Gilded, Tempera
Iconography / Theme
Santa Úrsula y las once mil vírgenes, Santa Úrsula
Provenance
Church of San Pablo, Palencia (Palencia, Spain)
Current location
Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight, United Kingdom)
Inventory Number in Current Collection
LL 3426
Object history

This panel was part of an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins. Thanks to a photograph belonging to the Ruiz Vernacci Archive (negative no. 2005), Post (1933) and Pérez and Rodríguez (1995) were able to confirm that it was located inside the convent of San Pablo de Palencia in 1879. Shortly thereafter it must have been dismantled and dismembered. At present the altarpiece is scattered in different museums and collections:

In 1909 a set of four panels, including this one, was in the collection of Francis Beaufort Palmer, although it is not known how he acquired them. Subsequently, on April 11, 1919, Christie's auctioned the pieces in lot 6 (Prieto, 2020). The firm of Gooden & Fox acquired the boards to sell to William Hesketh Lever for £624 (Sharples). Finally, the Viscount Leverhulme donated them to the Lady Lever Art Gallery, a museum he founded in honor of his wife in 1922 (Prieto, 2020).

Description

The panel was in the lower part of the altarpiece and represents the moment when Saint Ursula gathers eleven thousand virgins to go on pilgrimage with them to Rome. During the return trip they were martyred by the army of the Huns in the German city of Cologne. The Valencian influence of the artist can be appreciated in the faces and the composition of the floor.

Locations
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Bibliography
Citation:

Isabel Escalera Fernández, "St. Ursula Preaches to the Virgins. Fragment of an altarpiece from the church of San Pablo, Palencia" in Nostra et Mundi. Cultural Heritage from Castile and Leon around the world, Fundación Castilla y León, 2025. https://inventario.nostraetmundi.com/en/work/356

St. Ursula Preaches to the Virgins

Lady Lever Art Gallery (Liverpool).

Lady Lever Art Gallery (Liverpool).

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