TREASURES OF AL ANDALUS, OLD MASTERS, FINE ART AND ANTIQUES
Oil on canvas. The Virgen de la Soledad enjoyed great dedication both in Spain and in the New World. From 1565 to 1809, the Virgen de la Soledad remained in the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Victoria de los Mínimos. With the suppression of the religious orders decreed by José Bonaparte on August 18, 1809, the Minimos were expelled from their convent and the image of Our Lady of Solitude passed to the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro. This first stay of the image in San Isidro was brief, since with the return of Fernando VII and the restoration of the convents, enacted in the Royal Decrees of February 18, 1813 and August 26, 1813, the Mínimos returned to the convent. de la Victoria and with them the Virgen de la Soledad. There, It remained in its original location until the Confiscation of Mendizábal (1836) in which the convent of La Victoria was definitively abolished for later demolition. The image of the Virgen de la Soledad returned to the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro. This new and definitive stay of the image carved by Gaspar Becerra in the Collegiate Church lasted one hundred years, since on the night of July 19 to 20, 1936, after learning of the coup d’état against the Second Spanish Republic, more than fifty churches were burned and convents of the capital, among them the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro and with it, the Soledad de la Victoria. Measurements: 146 x 104. Provenance: private collection, South of Spain. This new and definitive stay of the image carved by Gaspar Becerra in the Collegiate Church lasted one hundred years, since on the night of July 19 to 20, 1936, after learning of the coup d’état against the Second Spanish Republic, more than fifty churches were burned and convents of the capital, among them the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro and with it, the Soledad de la Victoria. Measurements: 146 x 104. Provenance: private collection, South of Spain. This new and definitive stay of the image carved by Gaspar Becerra in the Collegiate Church lasted one hundred years, since on the night of July 19 to 20, 1936, after learning of the coup d’état against the Second Spanish Republic, more than fifty churches were burned and convents of the capital, among them the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro and with it, the Soledad de la Victoria. Measurements: 146 x 104. Provenance: private collection, South of Spain.
