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Ecce Homo (c. 1672-78)
Ecce Homo (c. 1672-78)
Public Domain
Artist
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Artist Dates
1617-1682
Artist Nationality
Spanish
Title
Ecce Homo
Date
c. 1672-78
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
85.7 x 78.7 cm (33-3/4 x 31 in)
K Number
K2108
Repository
El Paso Museum of Art
Accession Number
1961.1.54
Notes

Provenance

Commissioned for the Cathedral of Seville and located in the Capilla de la Virgen del Pilar in 1838; Louis-Philippe d'Orleans, King of France [d. 1848]; (Orleans sale, Christie's, London, 13 May 1853, no. 240); bought by Norton possibly buying for Breadalbane; John Campbell Breadalbane, 2nd Marquess of. Edinburgh [d. 1862], Taymouth Castle, Tayside, Scotland; [1] by inheritance Lady Elizabeth Maitland Campbell Pringle [d. 1878], wife of Sir John Pringle, 5th Bart., Langton, Duns, Borders, Scotland; to Hon. Mrs. Robert Baillie-Hamilton [née Mary Gavin Pringle], Langton; by inheritance in 1911/1912 to her sister Lady Magdalen Breadalbane [née Pringle], Langley Park, Buckinghamshire; by inheritance in 1913 to Lt.-Col. the Hon.Thomas George Breadalbane Morgan-Grenville-Gavin [1891-1954] Langton. (sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1927, no. 113). (sale, Christie's, London, 18 June 1954, n. 29); (David Koetser New York) sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 8 Febrauary 1955; gift to El Paso Museum of Art in 1961, no. 1961.1.54. [1] Most sources cite him as Marquess, which was his highest title in the English peerage; Earldom is in the Scottish peerage.