About This Artwork
Vergós workshop
Spanish (Catalan), active 1439–1503
Saint Agathac. 1500
Oil on panel
175.8 x 93.3 cm (69 1/4 x 36 3/4 in.)
Painted surface: 167 x 84.5 cm (65 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.)
James Deering Danielson, Gift. from Mrs. R. E. Danielson., 1970.1024
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Cayetano Barraquer y Roviralta, Los religiosos en Cataluña durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX, vol. 4, Barcelona, 1917, pp. 407, 453–54
José M. Martino Arroyo, Marycel, Publicaciones de Arquetectura, Barcelona, 1918, p. 46 (ill.).
Elizabeth du Gué Trapier, Catalogue of Paintings (14th and 15th Centuries) in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1930, p. xxxvi.
Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 7, Cambridge, Mass., 1938, pp. 472–73, fig. 168.
Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 42, 331, nos. 2921–22.
José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966, p. 411.
Judith Berg Sobré, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350–1500, Columbia, Mo., 1989, fig. 24.
Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 121-24, ill.
Ownership History
Sanctuary of the Virgin at Bellulla at Canovellas del Vallés, Barcelona, 1909 [Barraquer y Roviralta 1917, p. 407 and Post 1938, p. 472 n. 1, who noted that Barraquer published illustrations of Saint Lucy and a Crucifixion from the same altarpiece as they existed in the church in 1909]. Charles Deering, “Marycel,” Sitges, near Barcelona, and Chicago, by 1918 [Martino Arroyo 1918, shows the paintings installed at “Marycel]; given to his daughters Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1924 [Art Institute Archives]; Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, in a division of their joint property, 1937 [Registrar’s records]; given to her son James Deering Danielson, 1970 [Registrar’s records]; given to the Art Institute, 1970.

