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Saints Apollonia, Barbara, and Agatha
by Master Alejo
Provenance
Parish church of San Andrés, Villamediana, Palencia, Spain [based on their relation to paintings presumably from the same retable still in San Andrés]. Galerie Hansen AG, Lucerne, Switzerland; sold to Galerie Heinemann, Munich, 1928 [this and the following according to Galerie Heinemann records, stock no. 18734, German Art Archive, Gemanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg]; sold to Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878–1954), Burlington, Vt., 1928; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.
Exhibition history
Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Dec. 9-31, 1936, cat. 7.
Publications
Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting vol. 9, pt. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947), 488, fig. 182A. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 37 (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1950), 314. Judith Berg Sobre, Behind the Altar Table: The development of the Painted retable in Spain, 1350-1500 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989), 52. María Pilar Silva Maroto, Pintura hispanoflamenca castellana: Burgos y Palencia vol. 3, ([Valladolid]: Junta de Castilla y Leon, 1990), 953–55, nos. 33–35, fig. 380. Martha Wolff, ed., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), 86, 87 (ill), 88 figs. 1–2, 89.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Master Alejo (active Spain, c. 1485–1516)
- Date
- 1490–1500
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 56.5 × 122 cm (22 1/4 × 48 in.); Framed: 62.3 × 129.6 × 8 cm (24 1/2 × 51 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 15th century
- Place
- Spain
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph Winterbotham
- Accession no.
- 1954.307
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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