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Attributed to Jose de Paez (Mexico City, 1727 - circa 1790)
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Attributed to Jose de Paez (Mexico City, 1727 - circa 1790)
"The bleeding woman touches Jesus' cloak and is cured" or "The greatness of faith"
Oil on copper.
30 x 42 cm.
José de Páez was a painter who was active mainly between 1750 and 1780. According to Madrid's Museum of the Americas, "he created models of great sweetness, idealised beauty, oval faces, [and] was an excellent portraitist." He developed mainly religious themes with an interest in caste painting as well. He was the preferred painter of religious orders such as the Franciscans, the Bethlehemites, and the Oratorians and carried out numerous commissions for them. Given his very extensive production of universal themes, it is understood that he developed some lines of his work without commissions but in the knowledge that he had a solid market of buyers of his artworks.
Amongst his preserved works, we highlight the paintings on copper "Divina Pastora" and "Virgen de Loreto" from the Museum of the Americas; the "Medallion of a friar with the Nativity" and "San Juan de Nepomuceno" from LACMA; the "Virgen de la Merced" from the Blaisten Museum; and the ten paintings from the "Cycle of the Life of the Virgin" from 1772 that were restored between 2015 and 2016 and are located in the sanctuary of Guadalupe in Chihuahua, Mexico.
As a result of this restoration project, a very interesting analysis of José de Páez's technical procedure was carried out. According to Yana Arantxa Ramírez's detailed report, the painter enjoyed great success in his lifetime, which was later diminished by widespread disdain for 18th-century painting. Now, "in recent decades there has been an effort to vindicate 18th-century painting." Thus, Magdalena Castañeda, who was in charge of the restoration of Páez's works, proposed a new approach to his artistic personality in her master's thesis and concluded that the Mexican was "a restless artist, with a discursive effectiveness that allowed him to sell works inside and even outside of New Spain."
This beautiful painting narrates the biblical scene of the woman with the issue of blood, who touched the fringe of Jesus' cloak, as mentioned in Matthew 9:21 and Luke 8:44, fulfilling the prophecy in Malachi 3:20, as through her gesture, a miracle occurred. The narrative recounts that while Jesus was walking amid a crowded crowd, a woman suffering from a 12-year-long hemorrhage approached from behind and touched the fringe of his cloak, believing that by just touching it, she would be healed. The scene expresses "our faith as the weakness of God," that "with our living faith, we turn God's hands towards us," granting us everything that is good and better for our salvation. Touching the fringe of Jesus' tallit is a metaphor for touching the holy law of God, as a tallit or prayer shawl has 613 fringes representing the exact number of laws contained in the Torah. The Church Fathers allegorically interpret this image, mentioning it as a meeting of the Old Testament with the New. We can appreciate the contrast between the chromatic softness of the background landscape and the intense colors of the crowd accompanying Jesus, the expressiveness of each face individually, and the remarkable handling and perfection of the drawing. This work is part of a series of religious paintings for which there was high demand in New Spain and other Latin American countries, fostering the collective work of the most recognized artists' workshops of the time such as that of José de Páez, Miguel Cabrera, Diego de Cuentas, and José de Alcíbar. The painting becomes a catechetical lesson: faith, even expressed timidly, overcomes obstacles and achieves the impossible.
Reference bibliography:
-Ramírez, Yana Arantxa. (2021). El proceso pictórico de José de Páez: Ciclo de la vida de la Virgen, santuario de Guadalupe, San Felipe, Chihuahua, México. “Intervención”, 2(24), 250–276. https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.256.v2n24.35.2021
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Attributed to Jose de Paez (Mexico City, 1727 - circa 1790)
"The bleeding woman touches Jesus' cloak and is cured" or "The greatness of faith"
Oil on copper.
30 x 42 cm.
José de Páez was a painter who was active mainly between 1750 and 1780. According to Madrid's Museum of the Americas, "he created models of great sweetness, idealised beauty, oval faces, [and] was an excellent portraitist." He developed mainly religious themes with an interest in caste painting as well. He was the preferred painter of religious orders such as the Franciscans, the Bethlehemites, and the Oratorians and carried out numerous commissions for them. Given his very extensive production of universal themes, it is understood that he developed some lines of his work without commissions but in the knowledge that he had a solid market of buyers of his artworks.
Amongst his preserved works, we highlight the paintings on copper "Divina Pastora" and "Virgen de Loreto" from the Museum of the Americas; the "Medallion of a friar with the Nativity" and "San Juan de Nepomuceno" from LACMA; the "Virgen de la Merced" from the Blaisten Museum; and the ten paintings from the "Cycle of the Life of the Virgin" from 1772 that were restored between 2015 and 2016 and are located in the sanctuary of Guadalupe in Chihuahua, Mexico.
As a result of this restoration project, a very interesting analysis of José de Páez's technical procedure was carried out. According to Yana Arantxa Ramírez's detailed report, the painter enjoyed great success in his lifetime, which was later diminished by widespread disdain for 18th-century painting. Now, "in recent decades there has been an effort to vindicate 18th-century painting." Thus, Magdalena Castañeda, who was in charge of the restoration of Páez's works, proposed a new approach to his artistic personality in her master's thesis and concluded that the Mexican was "a restless artist, with a discursive effectiveness that allowed him to sell works inside and even outside of New Spain."
This beautiful painting narrates the biblical scene of the woman with the issue of blood, who touched the fringe of Jesus' cloak, as mentioned in Matthew 9:21 and Luke 8:44, fulfilling the prophecy in Malachi 3:20, as through her gesture, a miracle occurred. The narrative recounts that while Jesus was walking amid a crowded crowd, a woman suffering from a 12-year-long hemorrhage approached from behind and touched the fringe of his cloak, believing that by just touching it, she would be healed. The scene expresses "our faith as the weakness of God," that "with our living faith, we turn God's hands towards us," granting us everything that is good and better for our salvation. Touching the fringe of Jesus' tallit is a metaphor for touching the holy law of God, as a tallit or prayer shawl has 613 fringes representing the exact number of laws contained in the Torah. The Church Fathers allegorically interpret this image, mentioning it as a meeting of the Old Testament with the New. We can appreciate the contrast between the chromatic softness of the background landscape and the intense colors of the crowd accompanying Jesus, the expressiveness of each face individually, and the remarkable handling and perfection of the drawing. This work is part of a series of religious paintings for which there was high demand in New Spain and other Latin American countries, fostering the collective work of the most recognized artists' workshops of the time such as that of José de Páez, Miguel Cabrera, Diego de Cuentas, and José de Alcíbar. The painting becomes a catechetical lesson: faith, even expressed timidly, overcomes obstacles and achieves the impossible.
Reference bibliography:
-Ramírez, Yana Arantxa. (2021). El proceso pictórico de José de Páez: Ciclo de la vida de la Virgen, santuario de Guadalupe, San Felipe, Chihuahua, México. “Intervención”, 2(24), 250–276. https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.256.v2n24.35.2021
Millésime 24
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Once again, we start the year with a special auction, called Millésime.
A catalog of 73 lots of European, Novo-Hispanic and Vicerregal art, so spanish americas art, where you will find paintings, furniture, decorative arts etc.
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