Mexico
Oil on hand adzed board - signed lower left
17th century
4 1/2 x 7 inches (11.43 x 17.78 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Barbara CA
Cristóbal de Villalpando (born c. 1645, Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain [now in Mexico]—died Aug. 20, 1714, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter known for his decorative and luminous Baroque style.
Villalpando’s use of colour and the golden light that fills his paintings owe much to the work of the painter Baltasar Echave Rioja, the godfather of one of his sons and possibly his teacher. The work of Peter Paul Rubens was also an important source. Like other Mexican painters, such as Echave Rioja and Juan Correa, Villalpando shared Rubens’s loose brushwork, rich colouring, and dynamic compositions. He occasionally used Rubens’s paintings, which he may have seen reproduced in engravings and painted copies, as compositional models. Villalpando’s Triumph of the Eucharist, for example, is based on Rubens’s Triumph of the Eucharist. Villalpando made this painting for the sacristy of the Cathedral of Mexico, for which he produced other works, including The Virgin of the Apocalypse and An Allegory of the Church, all made between 1684 and 1685. For these dramatic images, he places dynamic compositions in ornate settings. Here too his solid, sculpted figures and decorative drapery reflect the influence of Ruben.
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Mexico
Oil on hand adzed board - signed lower left
17th century
4 1/2 x 7 inches (11.43 x 17.78 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Barbara CA
Cristóbal de Villalpando (born c. 1645, Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain [now in Mexico]—died Aug. 20, 1714, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter known for his decorative and luminous Baroque style.
Villalpando’s use of colour and the golden light that fills his paintings owe much to the work of the painter Baltasar Echave Rioja, the godfather of one of his sons and possibly his teacher. The work of Peter Paul Rubens was also an important source. Like other Mexican painters, such as Echave Rioja and Juan Correa, Villalpando shared Rubens’s loose brushwork, rich colouring, and dynamic compositions. He occasionally used Rubens’s paintings, which he may have seen reproduced in engravings and painted copies, as compositional models. Villalpando’s Triumph of the Eucharist, for example, is based on Rubens’s Triumph of the Eucharist. Villalpando made this painting for the sacristy of the Cathedral of Mexico, for which he produced other works, including The Virgin of the Apocalypse and An Allegory of the Church, all made between 1684 and 1685. For these dramatic images, he places dynamic compositions in ornate settings. Here too his solid, sculpted figures and decorative drapery reflect the influence of Ruben.
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