Don José Maria Perez Caballero, Madrid, by 1900 [1]

Possibly by descent to Doña Pilar Perez Caballero de Comas, possibly his sister, Madrid [2]

Dr. Gomez, Madrid, by 1914 [3]

[Sold jointly through Ricardo de Madrazo (1852-1917), Madrid, and C.F. Louis DeWild (d. 1987), New York, to M. Knoedler & Co. and Durand-Ruel, New York, May 14, 1914] [4]

Sold to Alfred William Erickson (1876-1936), New York, January 1927 [5]

[Sold to Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1928] [6]

Forsyth Wickes (1876-1964), Newport, Rhode Island, 1929 [7]

[Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1950] [8]

Sold to Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York, September 24, 1953

Gift to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, December 10, 1961

Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

[1] Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes 2002, vol. 2, pg. 76, owner lent to the 1900 exhibition in Madrid. 

[2] “Saturnino Calleja” 1924, pl. 136, pg. 475; Ishikawa, Orr, Shackelford, and Steel 1994, pg. 276.

[3] M. Knoedler & Co. stockbook 6, pg. 92, no. 13489.

[4] M. Knoedler & Co. stockbook 6, pg. 92, no. 13489.

[5] M. Knoedler & Co. stockbook 7, pg. 4; in October 1926, Knoedler took over Durand-Ruel’s share.

[6] Ishikawa, Orr, Shackelford, and Steel 1994, pg. 276 and pg. 278, footnote 1.

[7] Ishikawa, Orr, Shackelford, and Steel 1994, pg. 276.

[8] Wildenstein and Co., 1950, pg. 17, no. 12.

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Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, 1920. “Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters in the Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco,” no. 80.

New York, Wildenstein & Company, November 9, 1950–December 16, 1950. “A Loan Exhibition of Goya, for the Benefit of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University,” no. 12.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, December 10, 1961–February 4, 1962. “Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection,” no. 40.

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Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, February 5, 1994–April 24, 1994; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 22, 1994–August 14, 1994; Seattle Art Museum, September 15, 1994–November 20, 1994; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, December 17, 1994–March 4, 1995. “A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection,” no. 55. 

Gijón, Spain, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, May 11, 1998–June 28, 1998; Barcelona, Fundación “la Caixa,” July 1998–August 1998. “Jovellanos, Ministro de Gracia y Justicia,” no catalog number.

Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, February 28, 2003–May 4, 2003. “Konfrontacje-Inspiracje-Spotkania: Arcydzieła malarstwa europejskiego z muzeów amerykańskich i polskich,” no. 16.

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