The Immaculate Conception / Sketch for an Immaculate Virgin and a Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Coello, Claudio

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Coello, Claudio

Madrid (Spain), 1642 - Madrid (Spain), 1693

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The Immaculate Conception / Sketch for an Immaculate Virgin and a Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Second half of the XVII century.
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This drawing depicts the Immaculate Conception standing on the crescent of the moon. Her left arm appears outstretched and her right arm across her chest. A group of little angels flutter at her feet.

On the reverse side is a light sketch for the Immaculate Virgin herself and another of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that corresponds to the one in the church of Valdemoro. These sketches allow for the attribution to Claudio Coello, to whom Ceán Bermúdez had already attributed that painting. Another drawing with angels attributed to Murillo was pasted on the reverse side, which had resulted in this one also being attributed to him.

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Catálogo de Dibujos. Vol.I. Dibujos españoles siglos XV-XVII, Madrid, 1972, p.82-83

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Inventory number: D000117
Author: Coello, Claudio
Title: The Immaculate Conception / Sketch for an Immaculate Virgin and a Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Date: Second half of the XVII century
Dimension: Height: 253 mm; Width: 177 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931

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Sánchez Cantón, F. J., Dibujos Españoles (T.V). Siglo XVII, Hauser y Menet, Madrid, 1930, pp. 423.

Ceán Bermúdez, Juan Agustín, Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, I, Reales Academias de Bellas Artes de San Fernando y de la Historia, Madrid, 1965, pp. 346.

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Catálogo de Dibujos. Vol.I. Dibujos españoles siglos XV-XVII, Madrid, 1972, pp. 82-83.

Sullivan, Edward J., Baroque Painting in Madrid. The Contribution of Claudio Coello With a Catalogue Raisonne., Univ. of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1986, pp. 222, nº D25.

Sullivan, Edward J., Claudio Coello y la pintura barroca madrileña, Nerea, Madrid, 1989, pp. 259, nº D25.

Brown, Jonathan, Murillo. Virtuoso draftsman, Yale University Press, 2012, pp. 279.