Fresco from S. Pedro de Arlanza Chapterhouse

Artists

Dimensions

stretcher: 210.3 x 280.9 cm (82 13/16 x 110 9/16 in.) frame: 234.95 x 304.8 cm (92 1/2" x 120" in.)

Provenance

San Pedro de Arlanza, Burgos, Spain, confiscated by the Spanish Government and abandoned in 1841. [1] Carlota de Barbadillo, Burgos, sold; [to Josep Colominas, Barcelona, c. 1929], sold [through Josep Guidol and Walter W. S. Cook] [2]; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938 Notes [1] The mural was one of several that decorated a room above the chapterhouse of the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza. In 1841 the monastery is decommissioned by the Spanish Government and privatized. [2] The painting was first brought to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in January 1931 and then sent to the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City in 1933 for purchase consideration. In 1938, the mural was sent from Kansas City to the Fogg Art Museum.