Lot 294: FRANCISCO DE SOLIS MADRID 1620 - 1684

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

measurements note
167.5 by 138.7 cm.; 66 by 54 5/8 in.

signed and dated along the lower edge: Solis. f ^t. 1682

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

In the collection of the family of the present owners since at least the early 19th Century.

NOTE

This is a late work by Francisco de Solis, painted two years before the artist's death in 1684. The style and distinctive colour scheme, derived from the Venetian colourists, recall the work of Juan Carreño de Miranda, Francisco Rizi, Claudio Coello and other leading members of the school of Madrid, to which De Solis belonged. His oeuvre consists largely of religious paintings, such as this, painted for religious institutions in and around Madrid.