© National Gallery, London
Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
- Art Funded
- 1950
- Dimensions
- 237 x 261 cm
- Presented by
- Executors of W. Graham Robertson through The Art Fund
Subject taken from St John V, 2-8; one of eight paintings commissioned from Murillo for the Hospital de San Jorge, Seville, illustrating works of mercy.
Purchased for £8,000 given to the Art Fund by the Executors of the late Graham Robertson and presented to the National Gallery.
Provenance
Hospital de San Jorge, Seville; removed by Marshal Soult and taken to Paris by 1812; Colonel George Tomline of Orwell Park, 1846; by descent to George Pretyman; Christie's, 1933; private collector, 1933; Agnew's, 1949.