id: 141929 accession number: 1965.469 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.469 updated: 2023-12-08 21:49:38.189000 Laban Searching for his Stolen Household Gods, c. 1665–1670. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682). Oil on canvas; framed: 278 x 398 x 14 cm (109 7/16 x 156 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 243 x 362 cm (95 11/16 x 142 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1965.469 title: Laban Searching for his Stolen Household Gods title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1665–1670 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1670 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Spain, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Spanish before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 278 x 398 x 14 cm (109 7/16 x 156 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 243 x 362 cm (95 11/16 x 142 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Murillo opening date: 1983-01-15T05:00:00 Murillo. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (January 15-March 27, 1983); Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain (October 8-December 12, 1983). title: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Paintings from American Collections opening date: 2002-03-10T00:00:00 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Paintings from American Collections. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (March 10-June 16, 2002); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (July 14-October 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Royal Academy 1/3/83.
Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum (3/10-6/16/02); Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (7/14-10/6/02) "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections" exh. cat. no. 14, p. 137, no color repr. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1965- footnotes: citations: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Until 1965 footnotes: citations: Carlos Guinle [1889-1956], Rio de Janeiro date: by 1931 footnotes: citations: Jacques Barou de la Lombardière de Canson [d. 1958], Paris date: by 1926 footnotes: citations: Hibbard1 date: 1924- footnotes: *
1 Several copies of the 1924 Christie's sale catalogue have handwritten notations indicating "Hibbard" that Hibbard was the buyer of this painting.  Hibbard's first name has not been identified, but a collector by the name of "Hibbard" does appear in several other auction catalogues, as well as in the provenances of several paintings currently in museum collections.
citations: (Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, sale, July 4, 1924, no. 21, sold to Hibbard) date: 1924 footnotes: citations: Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, second Duke of Westminster [1879 –1953] date: By 1907-1924 footnotes: citations: Hugh Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster [1825-1899], Grosvenor House, London, to his grandson, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor date: Possibly until 1899 footnotes: *
1The painting appears in "A Catalogue of Pictures at Grosvenor House," published in 1921; therefore, it must have been in the Grosvenor family at least by that point, if not yet in the possession of Hugh Grosvenor.  Hugh's father, Richard, was born in 1795, and thus would not have purchased the painting from Buchanan c. 1809, but Hugh's grandfather, Robert [1767-1845] may have been the purchaser.

citations: Possibly Robert Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster [1767-1845]1 date: After 1809 footnotes: *
1 There is no documentation confirming that Robert Grosvenor owned this painting.  However, it was in the collection of Grosvenor House by 1821, and neither Hugh Grosvenor nor his father, Richard, could have purchased the painting from William Buchanan c. 1809.
citations: Marquis of Santiago, Santiago Palace, Madrid, sold to William Buchanan and W.G. Coesvelt through G. Augustus Wallis date: footnotes: citations: (William Buchanan and W.G. Coesvelt, London, acquired in Spain through Buchanan’s agent, G. Augustus Wallis), sold to the Marquis of Westminster)1 date: c. 1808-1809 footnotes: *
1 The Marquis of Westminster purchased the painting in exchange for two Lorrains, a Poussin, and 1200 livres.

citations: Marquis of Villamanrique, MadMarquis of Santiago, Santiago Palace, Madrid, sold to William Buchanan and W.G. Coesvelt through G. Augustus Wallisrid1 date: by 1775-1808 footnotes: *
1 Probably Ventura Osorio de Moscoso y Fernández de Córdoba, VIII Marqués de Villamanrique, who died in 1776.
citations: Marquis of Villamanrique, Seville date: 1665- footnotes: *
The Marquis of Villamanrique, probably Manuel Luis de Guzmán y Manrique de Zúñiga, IV Marqués de Villamanrique (d. 1692) commissioned this painting from Murillo.  The painting then passed down through the family, likely following this line of descent: Melchor de Guzmán Osorio Davila Manrique de Zuñiga, V Marqués de Villamanrique (d. 1710); Ana Nicolasa de Guzmán Osorio Dávila y Manrique de Zúñiga, VI Marquesa de Villamanrique (d. 1762); Ventura Antonio Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán Dávila y Aragón, VII Marqués de Villamanrique, (d. 1746); Ventura Osorio de Moscoso y Fernández de Córdoba, VIII Marqués de Villamanrique (d. 1776). 
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Valdivieso, Enrique. Murillo: catálogo razonado de pinturas. Madrid: Ediciones El Viso, 2010. page number: url: Esteban, Claude, and Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño. Tout l'œuvre peint de Murillo. Paris: Flammarion, 1980. page number: url: Angulo Iñiguez, Diego. Murillo. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981. page number: url: Angulo Iñiguez, Diego. Murillo. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981. page number: url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Pictures by Old Masters of the Italian and Flemish Schools. July 4, 1924. page number: url: Young, John, and Robert Grosvenor Westminster. A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, London: With Etchings from the Whole Collection. Executed by Permission of the Noble Proprietor and Accompanied by Historical Notices of the Principal Works. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Cleveland-Row, St. James's. Published by the Proprietor, No. 65, Upper Charlotte-Street, Fitzroy-Square, 1821. page number: url: page number: url: Buchanan, William. Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England Since the French Revolution. London: Printed for R. Ackerman, 1824. page number: url: Curtis, Charles Boyd. Velazquez and Murillo; A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works of Don Diego De Silva Velazquez and Bartolomé Estéban Murillo. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. page number: url:
Esteban, Claude, and Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño. Tout l'œuvre peint de Murillo. Paris: Flammarion, 1980.

page number: url: Mary Crawford Volk, letter to Alan Chong, Aug. 12, 1992, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n155 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Frank Chalton Francis. Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet: The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, June 13, 1966. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1966. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10-11 url: https://archive.org/details/50thAnniversary/page/n19 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Reproduced: p. 40: Mentioned: p. 43 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n155 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 150 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n170 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 502-504; Reproduced: p. 503 url: Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America. [Madrid, Spain]: Ediciones El Viso, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 72, 78 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: April through June 2016. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: p. 29-30 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.469/1965.469_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.469/1965.469_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.469/1965.469_full.tif