1930.188: Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.188
- People
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Workshop of Domenico Theotocopoli, called El Greco, Spanish (1541 - 1614)
- Title
- Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1600
- Culture
- Spanish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231539
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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41.3 x 52.7 cm (16 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
framed: 64.1 x 74.9 x 8.9 cm (25 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Naumburg (by 1927 - 1928); Mrs. Nettie G. Naumburg (1928 - 1930) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
- Accession Year
- 1930
- Object Number
- 1930.188
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Loan Exhibition of Religious Art for the Benefit of The Basilique of the Sacre Coeur of Paris, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1927), cat. no. VI, reproduced
- Christy Cunningham, "The Fogg Art Museum's Purification of the Temple by El Greco: An Analytical Report" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1981), Unpublished, pp. 1-50 passim
- Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 110, 371, repr. b/w cat. no. 818
- Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer, ed., El Greco Comes to America: The Discovery of a Modern Old Master, The Frick Collection (New York, 2017), p. 214
Exhibition History
- Loan Exhibition of Religious Art for the Benefit of the Basilique of the Sacre Coeur of Paris, Jacques Seligmann Galleries, 03/01/1927 - 04/01/1927
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
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Verification Level
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