Important Christmas Fine Art Auction: Haute Epoque, Jewels and Colonial Treasures
Lote 261:
Large oil painting on canvas, measurements: 86 x 70 cm, framed measurements 90 x 80 cm. Belonging to an extensive family of painters from Viceroyalty Mexico, among whom it is worth mentioning his grandfather José Juárez. His style is somewhere between Neapolitan tenebrism and late baroque or Rococo painting. Around 1694 he belonged to a brotherhood and was already a painter’s assistant. He had José de Padilla as a teacher and worked in his workshop. In 1719 he was hired to execute some of the central pieces of the Altar of the Kings of the Metropolitan Cathedral: the Adoration of the Magi and the Assumption of the Virgin. He cultivated the portrait genre, highlighting his Portrait of Archbishop José de Lanciego and that of Viceroy Fernando de Alencastre, Duke of Linares. Provenance: former private noble collection, Ciudad Real.
