Lot 85: * ATTRIBUTED TO JUAN RODRIGUEZ DE SOLIS (ACTIVE ZAMORA AND LÉON, EARLY 16TH CENTURY)

* ATTRIBUTED TO JUAN RODRIGUEZ DE SOLIS (ACTIVE ZAMORA AND LÉON, EARLY 16TH CENTURY)
Figures worshipping at the shrine of Saint Stephen’s relics
oil on panel
131.2 x 82.7cm (51 5/8 x 32 9/16in).

Provenance
Monastery of Valparaiso, Zamora
The Parish Church of Fuentelcarñero, Zamora
Literature
M. Gómez-Moreno, Cátalogo monumental de España, Provincia de
Zamora, Madrid, 1927, pp. 277-278, no. 693
C. R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. IX, part 2, Cambridge
(Mass.), 1947, pp. 514 and 516
Two other works of similar dimensions, previously at the Toledo
Museum of Art and sold at Sotheby’s London on 7 December 2006,
lot 122, formed part of the same altarpiece as the present painting.
A further panel depicting Juliana selecting the bones of Stephen is
now in the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Mass. All are believed to
have been executed for the monastery of Valparaiso in the province of
Zamora and later moved to the parish church of Fuentelcarñero, also in
the province of Zamora.