ALONSO CANO (Granada, 1601 - 1667), Spanish Granada Baroque School of the 17th century - NO RESERVE LOT

ALONSO CANO (Granada, 1601 - 1667), Spanish Granada Baroque School of the 17th century - NO RESERVE LOT
NOTICE TO BIDDERS: THIS ARTWORK HAS BEEN GRANTED EXPORT PERMIT BY THE SPANISH MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND CAN BE EXPORTED OUTSIDE THE EU. Dossier of Alain Morreau, Paris, and PHD Jose Antonio Diaz Gomez, University of Granada attached. Oil on canvas with measurements: 99.5 x 75 cm. Framed measurements: 150 x 125 cm. Of sublime technique and masterful artistic quality that are difficult to express with words, together with an important Spanish baroque pine frame from the same period in ebonized wood. Very possibly a private devotional commission made during his time in Madrid that spans from 1638 to 1650 of Our Lady of Soledad de la Victoria, a carving of immense devotion at the time both in the Peninsula and in the New World newly established colonial devotional missions, made by the sculptor and image maker Gaspar Becerra (1520-1570) for the disappeared convent of Nuestra Señora de la Victoria in Madrid, in whose church he had an important chapel and of which another version is preserved (larger format and twin of the one offered by Templum Fine Art Auctions ) in the Cathedral of Granada. Measurements: canvas only 99.5 x 75 cm. Framed measurements: 150 x 125 cm. Templum Subastas is pleased to present for the first time to the national and international art and auction market this work, of which a report by the Doctor in Art History of the University of Granada Mr. José Antonio Díaz Gomez is attached. The piece proposed here is presented in an excellent state of conservation, on an original canvas support on a wood frame, 97cm high, 74cm wide and 2cm thick, to which it is stapled after a contemporary intervention. The author of this painting has used the oil technique to recreate a true effigy of the Virgen de la Soledad, a round vestibule carving destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and originally made for the Convent of Our Lady of Victoria, of minimal friars of Madrid, by the Baeza sculptor Gaspar Becerra in 1565, in turn inspired, apparently, by a painting of French origin that Queen Isabel de Valois kept in her private oratory. Alonso Cano captures like no other artist of his time time the maternal tenderness and emotional spirituality that the self-absorbed, dry and austere countenance of the present work awakened in the faithful. Bibliography: Henares Cuéllar, Ignacio (dir.) Alonso Cano: spirituality and artistic modernity. Seville: Ministry of Culture, Junta de Andalucía, 2001; Véliz, Zahira. Alonsco Cano (1601-1667): drawings. Catalog raisonné. Santander: Marcelino Botín Foundation, 2011. Provenance: acquired from an important Spanish private institution dissolved collection.