# Saint Ildefonso, in 17th-century Spain

El Greco painted this in about 1603/1614, aged about 62. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Saint Ildefonso, the seventh-century archbishop of Toledo, pauses in his writing, pen in hand and fingers spread over an open book, to look up towards a small statue of the Virgin and Child.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1603/1614
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 112 x 65.8 cm (44 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.) framed: 135.4 x 89.9 x 6.7 cm (53 5/16 x 35 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1937.1.83
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[El Greco](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/el-greco), Spanish, 1541–1614

El Greco, “the Greek”, was born in Crete and trained in the Byzantine icon tradition before studying Venetian painting and working in Rome.

7 works in the collection.

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