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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague Source

24 Lot

Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco

Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614

The Assumption of the Virgin

Date: 1577–79
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 403.2 × 211.8 cm (158 3/4 × 83 7/16 in.); Framed: 461.6 × 256.5 × 14 cm (181 3/4 × 101 × 5 9/16 in.)
Inscription: Signed on the lower step
Department: Old Master Paintings

Estimate £8,000,000 – 12,000,000

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

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A Under raking light

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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

Commissioned for a Toledo church
Private collection, Spain
Acquired by the present owner, 1966

Exhibited

Madrid, exhibition of Spanish painting, 1902

Literature

Wethey, El Greco and his School, vol. II, no. 44

Condition

Relined in the nineteenth century. Retouching along an old horizontal join, visible under ultraviolet.

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.

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