Andalusian School; XVII century.

Andalusian school; possibly ANDRÉS PÉREZ (Seville, 1660- 1727); late seventeenth century.
"Orla de flores",
Oil on canvas.
It has faults and losses in the pictorial surface.
Preserves frame of the nineteenth century.
Measurements: 82 x 65.5 cm; 97 x 80.5 cm (frame).
We see in this canvas a typical composition of the baroque period inherited from the Low Countries. It is a scheme that combines a garland with an allegorical representation of devotional type in the interior. The author combines the genres of painting in search of greater sumptuousness and a sense of theatricality, almost trompe l'oeil, very much to the taste of Baroque painting. It should be noted that, in this type of composition, the flowers are not simply a secondary or accessory element, but are worked with the same care and quality as the central image. In fact, sometimes they even show a more skillful hand, since often these works were the result of the collaboration of a painter of flowers and another specialized in the human figure. In this particular work a great mastery can be appreciated, both in the floral composition and in the scene depicted inside. An image in which the Eucharist is glorified.
By the technical characteristics, the representation of elements very typical of Andalusian art, and even of Saints linked to Andalusia, this work can be aesthetically inscribed at the time when the Andalusian school reached its greatest splendor, both for the quality of the works and for the primordial rank of the Sevillian Baroque painting. Especially linked to the painting of Andrés Pérez. There is little data on the biography of the painter Andrés Pérez, son of painter Francisco Pérez de Pineda, of whom he was probably a disciple. According to Cean, despite the Murillo influence of the time, Andres Perez has its own style characteristics, such as a very precise drawing, characters of kind expressiveness, and large scenarios in which reminiscent of architectural environments or landscape perspectives. The two most relevant works known of this painter are kept in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, having been attributed to Ortega and Lucas Valdés. His works have a markedly Eucharistic symbolism, perhaps because of the commissions for chapels.