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El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) El Greco (painter) Greek, 1541 - 1614 Laocoön, c. 1610/1614 oil on canvas Overall: 137.5 x 172.5 cm (54 1/8 x 67 15/16 in.) framed: 176.5 x 212.7 cm (69 1/2 x 83 3/4 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1946.18.1 |
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| 1866 | Catálogo de los cuadros y esculturas pertenecientes á la galeria de SS. AA. RR. los Sereníssimos Señores Infantes de España, Duques de Montpensier. Seville, 1866: 44, no. 155. |
| 1903 | Williamson, George, ed. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. 4th ed. 5 vols. London, 1903-1904: 5:168. |
| 1906 | Förster, Richard. "Laokoön im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance." Jahrbuch der königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen (Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen) 27 (1906): 174-175. |
| 1907 | Thieme-Becker 1907-1950, Vol. 33 (1939): 7. |
| 1908 | Cossío, Manuel B. El Greco. Madrid, 1908: 357-363, 579, no. 162, pl. 67 (also 1972 ed.: 207-211, 397, no. 385, fig. 66). |
| 1909 | Calvert, Albert Frederick, and C. Gasquoine Hartley. El Greco. London, 1909: 170-171, pl. 126. |
| 1911 | Mayer, August L. "Sammlungen." Kunstchronik 23 (1911/1912): 10-11. |
| 1911 | Mayer, August L. El Greco. Munich, 1911: 56-58, 74, 82, repro. 73 (also 1916 ed.: 32-33, 57, pl. 51). |
| 1914 | Kehrer, Hugo. Die Kunst des Greco. Munich, 1914: 22, 85-87, 101, pl. 61. |
| 1915 | Burchard, Ludwig. "Werke alter Kunst aus Berliner Privatbesitzer." Kunst und Künstler 13 (1915): 523, 525, repro. 525. |
| 1917 | Henry, Norman. "Vergil in Art." Art and Archaeology 5 (1917): 239, repro. |
| 1923 | "Die Zeit und der Markt: Sammlungen." Der Cicerone 15 (1923): 1156-1157. |
| 1923 | Schmid, H. U. "Über das Jahr 1923." Jahresbericht der öffentlichen Kunstsammlungen, Basel 20 (1923): 6. |
| 1924 | Schmid, H. U. "Über das Jahr 1924: Gemäldegalerie." Jahresbericht der öffentlichen Kunstsammlungen, Basel 21 (1924): 6. |
| 1925 | "Bericht über das Jahr 1925 und 1926." Jahrbuch für Kunst und Kunstpflege in der Schweiz 4 (1925/1926): 60. |
| 1926 | Kehrer, Hugo. Spanische Kunst. Munich, 1926: 96-97, repro. 98. |
| 1926 | Mayer, August L. Dominico Theotocopuli, El Greco. Munich, 1926: 50, no. 311, pl. 116. |
| 1926 | Riggenbach, R. "Über das Jahr 1926: Gemäldegalerie." Jahresbericht der öffentlichen Kunstsammlungen, Basel 23 (1926): 27. |
| 1927 | Fischer, Otto. "Über das Jahr 1927." Jahresbericht der öffentlichen Kunstsammlungen, Basel 24 (1927): 6. |
| 1927 | Saxl, Fritz. Review of El Greco by August L. Mayer. In Kritische Berichte zur kunstgeschichtlichen Literatur (1927/1928): 95-96, fig. 11. |
| 1928 | Fischer, Otto. "Bericht über das Jahr 1928: Gemäldegalerie;" "Bericht über das Jahr 1929." Jahresbericht der öffentlichen Kunstsammlungen, Basel 25/27 (1928/1930): 6, 34. |
| 1928 | Villar, Emilio H. del. El Greco en España. Madrid, 1928: 132-133, pl. 28. |
| 1931 | Mayer, August L. El Greco. Berlin, 1931: 138-139, 163, fig. 120. |
| 1935 | Clark, Kenneth. "Report: National Gallery, 1935." National Gallery and Tate Gallery Directors' Reports 1935. London, 1935: 4. |
| 1937 | Legendre, Maurice, and Alfred Hartmann. Domenikos Theotokopoulos Called El Greco. Paris, 1937: 482, repro. |
| 1938 | Goldscheider, Ludwig. El Greco. London, 1938: 8, 16, pl. 216 (also 1954 rev. ed.: pl. 193). |
| 1939 | Bourgeos, Stephen. Byrdcliffe Afternoons. Woodstock, New York, 1939: 99-101. |
| 1939 | Kehrer, Hugo. Greco als Gestalt des Manierismus. Munich, 1939: 100-108, pl. 13. |
| 1944 | Cook, Walter S. "El Greco's Laocoön in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 26 (1944): 261-272, figs. 1-2, 4-6. |
| 1946 | "Vernissage." Art News 45 (April, 1946): 17, repro. |
| 1946 | Chamberlain, Betty. "Recent Additions to the Kress Collection." The Burlington Magazine (1946): 82. |
| 1950 | Camón Aznar, José. Dominico Greco. 2 vols. Madrid, 1950: 2:805, 880, 914-921, 1390, no. 696, figs. 714-717, 719-720 (also 1970 rev. ed., 2:815, 883, 918-924, 997, 1292, 1376, no. 684, figs. 780-783, 785-786). |
| 1952 | Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 1952:99-100, repro. 96 |
| 1952 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 80, color repro. |
| 1956 | Guinard, Paul. El Greco. Translated by James Emmons. Cleveland, 1956: 104, 106, repro. 102, color repros. 103-104. |
| 1956 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 32, repro. |
| 1957 | Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 46 |
| 1958 | Gaya Nuño, La pintura española 1958, 206, no. 1424. |
| 1958 | Soehner, Halldor. "Greco in Spanien." Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 9/10 (1958/1959); 181, 194, fig. 59. |
| 1959 | Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 269, repro. |
| 1960 | Kehrer, Hugo. Greco in Toledo. Stuttgart, 1960: 69-70, figs. 75-76. |
| 1960 | Evans, Grose. Spanish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Ten in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 20, color repro. |
| 1960 | The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 20, color repro. 13. |
| 1961 | Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 131-134, color repro. pl. 124-126 |
| 1962 | Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. 2 vols. Princeton, 1962: 1:50-51, 61, 63, figs. 144-145; 2:83-84, no. 127 (also Spanish ed. Madrid, 1967: 1: 66-67, 76, 78, pls. 128-129; 2: 98, no. 127). |
| 1963 | Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier. El Greco. London, 1963: 43-44, pl. 44. |
| 1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 164, no. 885, color repro. 165. |
| 1965 | Hauser, Arnold. Mannerism. Translated by Eric Mosbacher in collaboration with the author. 2 vols. New York, 1965: 1:269; 2:pl. 300. |
| 1965 | Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 62 |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:202, color repro. |
| 1968 | European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 55, repro. |
| 1969 | Manzini, Gianna, and Tiziana Frati. L'opera completa del Greco. Milan, 1969: no. 166, color pls. 48-51. |
| 1969 | Palm, Erwin Walter. "El Greco's Laokoön." Pantheon 27 (1969): 129-135, figs. 1-5. |
| 1969 | Vetter, Ewald W. "El Greco's Laokoön `reconsidered'." Pantheon 27 (1969): 295-299. |
| 1970 | Palm, Erwin Walter. "Zu zwei späten Bildern von El Greco." Pantheon 28 (1970): 298-299. |
| 1972 | Waterhouse, Ellis. "Some Painters and the Counter Reformation Before 1600." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, London 22 (1972): 114. |
| 1973 | Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 89, repro. 90. |
| 1973 | Gudiol, José. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. New York, 1973: 268-271, 356, no. 227, color fig. 250, fig. 251 (also 1983 ed.: 268-271, color fig. 250, fig. 251). |
| 1974 | Walker, John. Self-Portrait with Donors. Boston, 1974: 144-146, repro. 145. |
| 1974 | Winner, Matthias. "Zum Nachleben des Laokoön in der Renaissance." Jahrbuch der königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen (Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen) 16 (1974): 113, n. 90. |
| 1975 | Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique, and José Manuel Pita Andrade. El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years. Translated by Robert E. Wolf. New York, 1975: 61, 73-74, 114, 136-137, 162, no. 145, color fig. 93, color pls. 7-9. |
| 1975 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 162, repro. |
| 1976 | Davies, David. El Greco. London, 1976: 10, 16, n. to pl. 41, color pls. 41-43. |
| 1977 | Crombie, Theodore. Review of El Greco by David Davies. Apollo 106 (1977): 321. |
| 1977 | Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 195-201, figs. 198-200, text fig. 45, color repro. (detail). |
| 1978 | Waterhouse, Ellis. Review of El Greco by David Davies. The Burlington Magazine 120 (1978): 32. |
| 1979 | Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 60, pl. 44, color repro. |
| 1981 | López Torrijos, Rosa. "El Bimilienario de Virgilio y la pintura española del siglo XVII." Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia 54 (1981): 397-398. |
| 1983 | Rogelio Buendía, José. "Humanismo y simbología en El Greco: el tema de la serpiente." Studies in the History of Art (1983): 42-45, repros. 43-44. |
| 1984 | Moffitt, John F. "A Christianization of Pagan Antiquity." Paragone 35 (November, 1984): 44-60, pl. 31. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 240, no. 307, color repro. |
| 1985 | Caviro, Balbina M. "Los Grecos de don Pedro Laso de la Vega." Goya 184 (January-February, 1985): 217-219, repro. 219. |
| 1985 | López Torrijos, Rosa. La mitología en la pintura española del Siglo de Oro. Madrid, 1985: 220-222, 224, fig. 84. |
| 1985 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 188, repro. |
| 1985 | Pita Andrade, José Manuel. "Sobre la presencia del Greco en Madrid y de sus obras en las colecciones madrileñas del siglo XVII." Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia 58 (1985): 329. |
| 1986 | Kitaura, Yasunari. "El procedor artístico de El Greco." Boletin del Museo de Prado. 7 (1986): 85-91. |
| 1990 | El Greco of Crete: Exhibition on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his birth. Exh. cat. Iraklion, Crete, Greece, 1990: 185, fig. 7, 349. |
| 1990 | Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 60-67, color repro. 63. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 82, repro. |
| 1997 | Tomlinson, Janis. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561-1828, New York, 1997, no. 30, repro. |
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