The Tears of Saint Peter (El Greco, Lerma Museum Foundation)

The Tears of Saint Peter is a c.1605-1610 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, now in the Hospital de Tavera in Toledo, Spain.[1] It is signed δομήνικος θεοτοκóπουλος ε´ποíει;.

The first documentary mention of it is in a Hospital de Tavera inventory from 1672.[2] It is number 273 in the Harold Wethey catalogue raisonné and 64-e in Tiziana Frati's.

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  1. ^ (in Spanish) Marías. El GRIEGO DE TOLEDO, PINTOR DE LO VISIBLE Y LO INVISIBLE. pp. 298–299.
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Wethey. El Greco y su escuela. Vol. II. p. 157.