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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.188
People
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
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
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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Analytical Report" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1981), Unpublished, pp. 1-50 passim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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