Lot n° 23
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
17th CENTURY SPANISH CASE, - Lot 23
17th CENTURY SPANISH CASE,
ENTOURAGE OF Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo
ATTRIBUTED TO Juan Simon Gutiérrez (1634-1718)
Saint Francis rescued by an angel
Canvas.
156 x 106 cm.
(Framed in the mid-19th century).
Louis-Philippe period frame.
This painting has been stripped of its repaints, but not subsequently retouched.
Professor Enrique Valdivieso has confirmed in a letter that this good-quality Sevillian painting is not by Murillo, but probably by one of his immediate disciples. On a personal level, the work evokes the style of his pupil Juan Simon Gutiérrez, who worked in Seville from the 1660s onwards. The French frame from the 1840s-1850s that accompanies the painting suggests that it was brought back from Spain at a time when collections of Spanish paintings were being built up in France, such as that of King Louis-Philippe. Purchases of paintings in Spain were encouraged by "desamortizacion", the forced sale of religious property imposed by the Spanish government.
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