Francisco de Zurbarán

Probably listed in a post-mortem inventory of the artist's belongings in his Madrid workshop, dated 3 September 1664;

Probably listed in a post-mortem valuation of the artist's belongings, dated 11 August 1665;

Private collection, Southern France, by the 1950s;

Private collection, Paris;

From whom acquired by the present owner, circa 1990.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Zurbarán, Maître de l’Âge d’or espagnol, 29 January - 25 May 2014, no. 49;

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Zurbarán, A New Perspective, 9 June - 13 September 2015, no. 63;

Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Zurbarán, 10 October 2015 - 31 January 2016, no. 78.

O. Delenda, "Los Desposorios Místicos de Santa Catalina de Alejandría, Reaparición de un Lienzo de Temática inédita en la Obra de Zurbarán," in Archivo Español de Arte 84, no. 336 (October-December 2011), pp. 379-394, reproduced;

O. Delenda, in Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), exhibition catalogue, Ferrara 2013, pp. 45-46, reproduced fig. 19;

O. Delenda, in Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), exhibition catalogue, Brussels 2014, pp. 190-191, cat. no. 49, reproduced;

O. Delenda, in Zurbarán, A New Perspective, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2015, pp. 186-187, 197, cat. no. 63, reproduced;

O. Delenda, in Zurbarán, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf 2015, p. 226-227, 230-231, cat. no. 78, reproduced;

I. Cano, "Los silencios del maestro," in Ars Magazine 27 (July-September 2015), pp. 35-36, reproduced.