Updated 14 April 2025
On Display Special Exhibition Wing
On Display
Special Exhibition Wing
Santo Domingo de Guzmán
| Date | 1626-1627 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 201.5 x 135.5 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.2019-0001 |
Saint Dominic lived in the early 13th century and founded the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church. This portrait shows a dog at his side holding a torch in his mouth, with the torch's lit end casting a faint light behind the saint. This portrait by Zurbarán, a major 17th century Spanish painter, is thought to have been painted for the Convent of San Pablo el Real in Seville, when he was around 27 years old. Strips of canvas were later added to the right, left and bottom of the composition. The image of a figure quietly emerging from the black lacquer-like background and the painting's contemplative mood convey the essence of Zurbarán's style that led to his "painter of monks" nickname. (Source: Gallery label, August 2020)
Provenance
1626-. Seville, Convent of San Pablo el Real? (contract signed on the 17th January, 1626); 1691-. Alcalá de Guadaíra?; 1844-. Seville, Francisco Romero Balmaseda; 1905-. Francisco de Paula Romero Balmaseda y Canavachuelo Peña; c. 1920, San Sebastián, Francisco Romero Brunet; 1948-. San Sebastián, José Manuel Brunet Serrano Bingley Navarro (1892 –1963); 1963-. San Sebastián, Alicia Ortiz de Urbina Gutiérrez (second wife of the former); 1978- Anglet, France. Elisa Marín Gutiérrez (1931- 2011, cousin of the former); by descent to the current owner; purchased by NMWA, 21 October 2019.
Exhibition History
- 1905
- Catálogo oficial ilustrado de la exposición de las obras de Francisco de Zurbarán, Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Madrid, 0 1905 - 0 1905, cat. no. 54 [?]
Bibliography
- 1905
- Viniegra, D. Salvador. Catálogo oficial ilustrado de la exposición de las obras de Francisco de Zurbarán. Madrid, 1905, p. 30.
- 1931
- Cascales y muñoz, José. Francisco de Zurbarán: su época, su vida y sus obras. Madrid, 1911; English ed. New York, 1918; 2nd Spanish ed. Madrid, 1931, p. 97.
- 1959
- Caturla, María Luisa. “Ternura y primor de Zurbarán”. Goya. no. 30, May-June 1959, pp. 342-345, in part p. 344.
- 1976
- Gudiol, José; Gállego, Julián. Zurbarán 1598-1664. Barcelona, 1976, no. 531, p. 122 (bajo este número se confunden las versiones del Santo Domingo de la colección Valdés con el presente lienzo)
- 1988
- Guinard, Paul. Zurbarán et les peintres espagnols de la vie monastique. Paris, 1960; Spanish ed. Zurbarán y la pintura española de la vida monástica. Madrid, 1967; edición actualizada por Claudie Ressort. Paris, 1988, no. 306, p. 244.
- 1994
- Caturla, María Luisa. Francisco de Zurbarán. traduction, adaptation et appareil critique par Delenda, Odile, Paris, 1994, pp. 46-47.
- 2000
- Arte, información y gestión. Auction catalogue. Seville, 7 April, 2000, no. 30, pp. 30-31, repr. (Included in the catalogue but not put on the sale).
- 2003
- Domingo, Iturgaiz Ciriza. Santo Domingo de Guzmán en la iconografía española. Madrid, 2003, p. 291 (under no 2.17, as a replica of the Valdés version).
- 2010
- Delenda, Odile; colaboración Ros de Barbero, Almudena. Zurbarán: Los conjuntos y el obrador. vol. 2, Madrid, 2010, no. II-182, pp. 432-433.
- 2021
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 54 (Apr. 2019-Mar. 2020), 2021, Kawase, Yusuke. New Acquisitions. pp. 11-13, List of New Acquisitions. p. 16, col. repr.