Lot 310: ANTONIO DEL CASTILLO

SAINTS PHILLIP AND JAMES

25 1/4 by 17 3/4 in.; 64.2 by 45 cm.

oil on canvas

J. Valverde Madrid, "Nuevos datos sobre el pintor Antonio de Castillo", in Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Seville 1976, p. 219, cat. no. 110, reproduced (as a copy);
F. Zueras Torrens, Antonio del Castillo: un gran pintor del Barroco, Cordoba 1982, cat. no. 138;
V. G. Powell and C. Restort, Catalogue écoles espagnole et portuguese, Musée du Louvre, Paris 2002, p. 158, reproduced.
M. Nancarrow, B. Navarrete Prieto, Antonio de Castillo, Madrid 2004, p. 308, cat. no. 92, reproduced p. 309.

José Alegría, San Juan, Puerto Rico, before 1962;
Thence by descent to the present owner.

This painting, dateable to 1650, is a study for Castillo's fresco in the Cathedral in Córdoba (310 by 192 cm.). Another study is in the Musée du Louvre (oil on canvas, 57 by 44 cm.) and a preparatory drawing for the figure of St. James, which shows his head in different positions, is in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Córdoba.