About This Artwork

Spanish, Catalonia

Capital with Lion Attacking Prey, 1125/50

Limestone
35.6 x 34.3 x 36.8 cm (14 x 13 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1964.173

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 60, 3 (May 1966).

Walter Cahn, “Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XIII. Chicago, Bloomington, and St. Louis,” Gesta 13, 2 (1974), p. 48, no. 5, fig. 7.

Walter Cahn et al. Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, vol. 2 (Turnhout, 1999), p. 198.

Ownership History

Henri A. Kamer, New York, by 1964 [according to curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1964 [according to incoming receipt in Registrar's file].