
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Private Collection, Spain since circa 1950
The name of the Master of Villamediana was given by Chandler Post to the artist of the altarpiece dedicated to Saint Columba in the church of Villamediana in Palencia. He identified the panel of Saint Columba lecturing, in the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania as the work of this artist. The present work has stylistic similarities to the aforementioned panel, particularly the treatment of the figure's hand, distinctive facial types, the depiction of the floor and the configuration of the carving of the Gothic frame, and therefore it is probable that it formed part of the same retablo (see: C.R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, Massachusetts, 1947, pp. 789-792, fig. 328).