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The castle's Hermitage of Yecla (Region of Murcia) constituted during the 13th to 16th centuries the first parish of the population, hosting a triptych-shaped altarpiece presided over by a tempera painting on wood of Our Lady of Humility or "Virgo Lactans", dated around 1370 and attributed to the painter Barnaba da Modena, which was the titular image of the mentioned temple under the title of Our Lady of the Incarnation, until at the end of the 18th century it changed ownership for the Conception of Our Lady. The table at averages of the eight hundred was placed in an a loft, appropriating it at the beginning of the 20th century by the retired military Pascual Spuche y Lacy, who sold it around 1923/1924 in Madrid in the art market, acquiring it by the dealer José Arnaldo de Weissberger Khan, who had it in his possession right up until the 50s of the last century when it passed into the hands of another collector and whose heirs have kept the panel to this day, deciding in 2019 after its restoration to put it on sale at the Fair TEFAF in New York through the Nicolás Cortés Art Gallery in Madrid. Currently, its possible acquisition is being managed by the cultural services of the Government of the Region of Murcia, with the purpose that the painting is transferred to the Yecla City Council as a museum piece.
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