- Identification and Creation
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- 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
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- 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
- Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Naumburg (by 1927 - 1928); Mrs. Nettie G. Naumburg (1928 - 1930) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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Loan Exhibition of Religious Art for the Benefit of The Basilique of the Sacre Coeur of Paris, exh. cat. (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Analytical Report" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1981), Unpublished, pp. 1-50 passim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
- Exhibition History
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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
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Google Art Project
- Related Works
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