Overview
- The Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts confirmed it holds the panel and is sharing records to reconstruct its provenance.
- 'Procesión al Monte Gargano' is one of four Nicolás Francés panels from the San Miguel retablo in Villalpando, with the other three in Montserrat, the MNAC in Barcelona and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
- Research drew on diocesan sale papers, correspondence involving New York’s Schaeffer Gallery and the Cincinnati museum, and a black‑and‑white negative from José Gudiol Ricart’s archive.
- The work left Villalpando in a 1957 sale for roughly 5,000 pesetas as part of a larger lot later linked to the chapel of baroness Anita Breuille in Córdoba.
- Findings will be presented January 21–23 at an international congress in Burgos, as local advocates stress conservation of remaining heritage and say restitution is unlikely.