ALONSO CANO (GRANADA 1601-1667) AND STUDIO
ALONSO CANO (GRANADA 1601-1667) AND STUDIO
ALONSO CANO (GRANADA 1601-1667) AND STUDIO
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ALONSO CANO (GRANADA 1601-1667) AND STUDIO

The Immaculate Conception

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ALONSO CANO (GRANADA 1601-1667) AND STUDIO
The Immaculate Conception
oil on canvas, unlined
73 ½ x 51 ½ in. (186.7 x 130.8 cm.)
來源
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 December 2015, lot 166.

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Lucy Speelman
Lucy Speelman Junior Specialist, Head of Part II

拍品專文


After arriving in Seville in his early teenage years, Alonso Cano began his apprenticeship in the workshop of Francisco Pacheco in August 1616, where Diego Velázquez was at that moment completing his own training.

Although not codified by the Catholic church until 1854, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception (namely, that the Virgin was without sin from conception) was profoundly significant to the Spanish cult of the Virgin Mary, and unsurprisingly, Cano returned to the subject on many occasions. Pacheco's seminal treatise on painting, Arte de la pintura (Seville, 1649) laid out exacting guidelines on its depiction, to which the artist and his contemporaries closely adhered: the Virgin Mary should be 'pretty, in the flower of her youth, dainty, with a perfect nose and mouth, and blushing cheeks, with beautiful long tresses, wearing a white tunic and blue cloak, crowned with stars...'.

This painting is an autograph version, with studio assistance, of the Immaculate Conception in the collection of the marqués de Cartagena, Granada, dated by Wethey to circa 1653-7 (see H. Wethey, Alonso Cano, Madrid, 1983, p. 125, no. 37).

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