Lady in Ermine

[1] It is based on a 1922 play [es] by his brother Luis, which portrays a fictitious relationship between the daughter of the painter El Greco and a young Jewish goldsmith in sixteenth century Toledo.

It was shot at the Sevilla Film Studios in Madrid, with sets designed by the art director Enrique Alarcón.

Jews Samuel the young, Abraham and Job go to the Corpus Christi procession in Toledo, Spain to admire the monstrance.

Don Luis leaves Catalina and Gregoria at the shop, where they meet Samuel the young, who gallantly woos her.

Gregoria arranges for Samuel to escape to Lisbon but, when he hears that his father is in prison, he returns to Toledo and is arrested.

El Greco, Paravicino and Don Luis gather in the painter's house anticipating Catalina's joy.

[2] Any Jews in Spain were either illegal aliens or lapsed Conversos to be punished by the Spanish Inquisition, not a tolerated minority as depicted in the film.

Painting of a white woman wrapped in ermine fur.
Lady in a Fur Wrap was traditionally attributed to El Greco, but later research has pointed to Alonso Sánchez Coello or Sofonisba Anguissola .