The Tears of Saint Peter (El Greco, Washington)

The Tears of Saint Peter is a c.1600-1605 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, now in the Phillips Collection in Washington D. C.[1] It is in Harold Wethey's catalogue raisonné as number 271 and Tiziana Frati's as 64-c. Its appearance and dimensions are similar to the studio version now in Sitges.[2]

Provenance

  1. Guillermo de Guillén García, Barcelona
  2. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (deposited, 1906)
  3. Ignacio Zuloaga, Zumaya
  4. Ivan Chtchoukine, Paris (1908)
  5. Heilbuth Collection, Copenhagen (1920)

See also

References

  1. ^ "THE REPENTANT ST. PETER". Phillips Collection. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. p. 156.