Lot 376: Attributed to Juan Rodriguez de Solis (active León

Attributed to Juan Rodriguez de Solis (active León c.1575) The martyrs of Mount Ararat oil on panel 9 3/4 x 20 in. (24.8 x 50.8 cm.)

C.P. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, Cambridge, 1941, IX, part II, p. 542, fig. 209. J.A. Gaya-Nuno, La Pintura Española Fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, no. 2492.

Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1976, lot 91. George P. Harding, Chicago, by whom given to the Museum in 1984.

SOLD BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO * The legend of the martyrdom of the Roman centurion and his 10,000 legionnaires on Mount Ararat has been transformed here into a scene with three men, naked except for loincloths and crowns of thorns, spitted on the spiny branches of three bare trees. Standing beside the trees is Saint Acacius carrying a crozier and wearing a mitre and other pontifical vestments. This lot has no reserve Tax exempt