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Our Lady of Good Counsel

c. 1680
(Spanish, 1634–1693)
Culture
Spain
Measurements
Framed: 50 x 40 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.); Unframed: 37 x 26 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
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Location
Not on view

Description

This painting loosely and inventively depicts an actual chapel in the former Jesuit Imperial College in Madrid, which housed a Madonna and Child in gilded and painted wood, a focus of popular devotion. Pérez made temporary decorations for the Spanish court, none of which survive, but the fanciful architecture, curiously inverted obelisks, fruits and flowers, and pastel colors all stem from this side of his work. By representing a polychrome sculpture in two dimensions, Pérez further blurred boundaries between painting and sculpture. This intersection of the spiritual and the real worlds was important in Spanish art of the 1600s.
A vertically oriented oil painting depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child, flanked by two men, all with light skin tones. Mary and Christ wear gold crowns. Mary wears a blue cloak with gold monograms while standing on a crescent moon framed by a halo of red roses. On our left, a man kneels in white; on our right, another in black. Small winged children float throughout the pink and gold arched frame.

Our Lady of Good Counsel

c. 1680

Bartolomé Pérez

(Spanish, 1634–1693)
Spain

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