San Buenaventura en el Concilio de Lyon (c.1629)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664)

San Buenaventura en el Concilio de Lyon (Saint Bonaventure at the Council of Lyon)
c.1629
Oil on canvas, 250 x 225 cm
Musée du LouvreParis

Church of Saint Bonaventure College, Seville, circa 1629; deposited, by order of King Joseph Bonaparte at the Alcázar of Seville, room 2, no. 69 (A Council), 1810; Marshal Soult, before 1810; brought back to France and placed in his hotel on rue de l’Université in Paris; sent by Soult to Brussels with other paintings to the Count and Countess of Grimberghe, after the days of February 1848; was still there when he died; his sale after death Paris, 19 V 1852, n°22; in reality not awarded, taken over by the Soult heirs and remained in joint ownership; after the death of Napoleon, Hector Soult (1802-1857), Duke of Dalmatia, son of Marshal Soult, ceded to the State by the Soult heirs in July 1858, with four other paintings (see Herrera, M.I. 206, Murillo, M.I. 202 , M.I. 203, and Zurbarán, M.I. 205) by the heirs of Marshal Soult to settle a debt owed to the French State, following the extinction of the surcharge instituted by Napoleon I in 1807; attributed to the Imperial Museum, October 1858 (registered in the M.I. Inventory under the title “Saint Pierre Nolasque and Saint Raymond de Pegnafort”). (Louvre)