St. Matthew/ St. Luke

Creator

The Cueza Master (Spanish, active early 16th Century)

Title

Date

c. 1510

Description

Oil on panel
25 x 18 in. (c. 63.5 x 45.7 cm.)

Provenance

Church of San Pedro, Astudillo, near Palencia, Spain. Art Market, Barcelona, by 1949-1950. Jose A. Weissberger (c.1880-1954), New York and Madrid, sold March 1953 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold February 1961 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Exhibitions

Probably 1892-1893 – Madrid, Palacio de Biblioteca y Museos Nacionales, Exposición Historico-Europea, 1892 á 1893. Catálogo general. Madrid: Establecimiento Tipográfico de Fortanet, 1893, nos. 78-9.

1960 – Indianapolis, IN, John Herron Art Museum, Indiana Collects: A Loan Exhibition of European and Latin-American Paintings Owned by Collectors in the State of Indiana, 9 October – 6 November 1960, no. 6, St. Luke, illus.

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 6 St. Luke, illus., no. 7 St. Matthew, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 55. St. Luke and St. Matthew, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 9, St. Luke, illus.

References

Post, Chandler R. A History of Spanish Painting. Vol. IX, Part 1. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947, Kraus Reprint, 1970, pp. 475-6, fig. 174 St. Luke.

Vielva, D. Ramon Revilla. Catalogue Monumental de la Provincia de Palencia. Vol. 1. Palencia: Imprenta Provincial, 1951, pp.5-6, figs. 31, 35.

Newhouse Photo Advertisement for Cueza Master Saint Luke, The Burlington Magazine (Sept. 1956, Vol. 98, no. 642): iv.

Nuño, Juan Antonio Gaya. La Pintura Española Fuera de España. Historia y Catalogo. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, S.A., 1958, no. 653 Saint Luke (Newhouse Galleries, New York) and no. 654 Saint Matthew (Texas, Private Collection).

Newhouse Photo Advertisement for Cueza Master Saint Matthew, The Burlington Magazine, (Nov. 1958, Vol. 100, no. 688): xvi.

The Frick Photo Archive, Frick Art Reference Library, New York.
Cueza Master, Saint Luke
Cueza Master, Saint Matthew

Status

Under research

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