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Our Lady of Good Counsel

c. 1680

Bartolomé Pérez

(Spanish, 1634–1693)
Culture
Spain, 17th century
Medium
oil on copper
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.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2012.5
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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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.

Our Lady of Good Counsel

c. 1680

Bartolomé Pérez

(Spanish, 1634–1693)
Spain, 17th century

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