GRAND AUCTION OF OLD MASTERS, COLONIAL ART AND VINTAGE WATCHES
Lote 271:
Oil on canvas. (Granada, 1638-1689). Spanish painter. A disciple of Alonso Cano, considered one of the most prominent Spanish painters of the Granada Baroque school, in the final years of the 1660s he became the most active artist in his hometown. In 1665-1666 he executed a series of canvases for the cloister of the convent of Nuestra Señora de Gracia (lost) and between 1668 and 1672 he painted numerous paintings and the Conversion of Saint Paul for the altar of the school of the Company of Jesus, current church of Saints Justo and Pastor (in situ). At the same time, he received the commission to decorate the Granada charterhouse with large scenes about the life of the Virgin, of which Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard and The Virgin and Saint Peter giving the rule to some Carthusian friars are preserved in the Prado Museum, from the extinct Trinidad Museum. After a brief stay in Seville, in 1686 he went to the Madrid court protected by Don Pedro de Toledo, Marquis of Mancera, who helped him obtain the title of painter to the king ad honorem for his painting Allegory of Justice (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid), which is inspired by a Venetian print from the mid-16th century. Other preserved works of his are The Adoration of the Eucharist (Las Góngoras Convent, Madrid), some portraits of members of the Trinitarian order (Palace of Charles V, Granada), as well as several paintings representing the Virgin with the Child and different Saints, and The Triumph of David, belonging to the Prado Museum, from various legacies and donations. Upon his return to his hometown, he met the painter and architect Teodoro de Ardemans, who portrayed him on a canvas that is preserved in the archiepiscopal palace of Granada. Canvas measurements only: 190 x 140 cm. Measurements with important frame from the Baroque period: 210 x 170 cm. López Jiménez, José Crisanto, “Virgen de la Leche de Bocanegra”, Spanish Art Archive, xxxviii, no. 149, Madrid, 1965, p. 133. Provenance: important private collection from Seville.
