Attributed to Juan Carreño de Miranda

Attributed to JUAN CARREÑO DE MIRANDA (Avilés, Asturias, 1614 - Madrid, 1685).
"Immaculate Conception.
Oil on canvas.
Presents faults.
Measurements: 169 x 118 cm.
Representation of Mary as Immaculate with the figure of full body, standing on a pedestal of clouds, with a lunar crescent, on a kind of mandorla and surrounded by child angels that in many cases appear the symbols of the Litanies.
Juan Carreño de Miranda is one of the leading figures in the Spanish court painting scene of the second half of the 17th century, to which he contributed a style that blends structural solidity with a notable taste for color, and which has as its sources both the works of the preceding generations of local artists, including Velázquez, and those of some of the foreign painters who most influenced the development of the Madrid Baroque, among them Titian, Rubens and Van Dyck. Nephew and son-in-law of painters, he was trained in the workshops of Pedro de las Cuevas and Bartolomé Román, in Madrid, and his first dated work dates from 1646. From then on he was very active in the Madrid milieu, where he occupied a privileged position, holding important official positions. In fact, he was appointed painter to the king in 1669, and from then until his death he devoted himself mainly to portraying the royal family and various members of the court. However, throughout his career he tackled a remarkable variety of pictorial subjects, in different techniques. He was a notable draughtsman, cultivated the fresco and was the author of a prolific production of paintings on canvas, standing out as a religious painter as well as a portraitist. In this genre he had important clients such as the cathedral of Toledo and important religious orders. Currently Carreño de Miranda is widely represented in the Prado Museum, as well as in the San Telmo Municipal Museum in San Sebastian, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Courtauld Institute in London, the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, the Hispanic Society in New York, the Víctor Balaguer Library-Museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú and the El Greco House-Museum in Toledo, among many others.