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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Gift of Charles Deering Source

21 Lot

Spanish

Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin

Date: 1396
Medium: Tempera and gold on panel
Dimensions: Retable: 257 × 669.9 cm (99 3/4 × 263 3/4 in.); Frontal: 116.3 × 290.9 cm (45 3/4 × 114 1/2 in.)
Inscription: Inscribed throughout in Catalan
Department: Old Master Paintings

Estimate £1,800,000 – 2,600,000

Offered in Old Masters, Antiquities & Arms, 27 September 2026

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A Under raking light

Examine the surface.

Swing the lamp around the picture and drop it towards the surface. Raised paint catches the light and casts a shadow; a flat, uniform surface will not.

Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

A church in the diocese of Lleida
Private collection, Barcelona
Acquired by the present owner

Exhibited

Barcelona, exhibition of Catalan Gothic painting, 1936

Literature

Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. II, pp. 310–14

Condition

Tempera and gold on panel. Losses to the gilding at the extreme edges; the narrative registers are legible throughout.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

C In the same sale