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SAINT FRANCIS RECEIVING THE STIGMATA inscribed in Greek - - oil on canvas 20 1/2 x 16 3/8 in. (52.1 x 41.6 cm.) PROVENANCE page 2296 Category: ARTFACT REL. 1.5F - (c)1994,1995 ARTFACT, INC./FINE ART AUCTION LISTINGS / Ortiz de Pinedo, Madrid H. L. Kribben, the German consul, Madrid, 1890 with Cassirer, Berlin Viscount Albernon, London, 1934 A. L. Mayer Anon. sale, Christie's, London, July 15, 1949, ( 1470 to Searle) with Koetser Gallery, New York, 1952 LITERATURE M. B. Cossio, El Greco, 1908, no. 1, as autograph and dateable to 1604-14 A. L. Mayer, El Greco, 1926, no. 233, as autograph and dateable to 1592-99 Legendre and Hartmann, El Greco, 1937, no. 426, as autograph J. Camon Aznar, Dominico Greco, 1950, no. 599, as a doubtful attribution H. E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, 1962, II, p. 222, no. X-273, as an imitator of El Greco, XVIIth century G. Manzini, ed., L'opera completa del Greco, 1969, p. 104, no. 71d, as a variant of the Escorial picture Wethey, loc. cit., notes that no original of this composition by El Greco is known and he doubts that one ever existed. He also states that the above lot is the best example of this composition and shows the saint in an attitude similar to that of El Greco's "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata" in the Escorial, Madrid except that the saint is not wearing his cowl.