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Pedro de Orrente (Murcia, 1580 - Valencia, 1645)
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Pedro de Orrente (Murcia, 1580 - Valencia, 1645)
‘The Sacrifice of Isaac’ and “Reconstruction after the Flood (Noah's Sacrifice and God's Pact with Noah)”.
Pair of oil paintings on canvas.
106 x 147 cm each.
Attached is a study by the art historian José Gómez Frechina, from which we extract the following summary:
‘Pedro Orrente played a primordial role in the dissemination of early naturalism in Castile and, especially, in Valencia. […] The key to understanding Pedro Orrente's extensive pictorial production and his non-conformity in the reigns of Philip III and his son Philip IV is to be found in his Italian training, which is already reflected in artistic literature,’ the study states.
‘Jusepe Martínez, painter to Philip IV and treatise writer [...] tells us of his many travels and of his production of series based on the Old Testament, as is the case with the pair of autographed canvases by Pedro Orrente that are the subject of this study.
[...]
The young Pedro Orrente's formative journey to the Italian peninsula at the end of 1602, his possible stay in Rome, and his certain stay in Venice provide a reasoned explanation for the style of his art and his extensive and certain knowledge of the paintings of Leandro da Ponte (Bassano del Grappa, 1557 - Venice, 1622), better known as Bassano after his place of birth.
[...]
His narrative ability is outstanding in the excellent execution of important pictorial ensembles in which he put his great talent for creation and invention to the test. In some cases literature and painting intertwine in a perfect union between the printed letter with its multiple messages and the colours and lines of the painting with its suggestive beauty. This is the case, for example, of the stories of Jacob, Moses, Noah or the patriarch Abraham’.
With regard to the paintings in the auction, Gómez Frechina reports that ‘they are two previously unknown canvases by Pedro Orrente. The stylistic characteristics of the two canvases reveal Orrente's signature character with the typical zigzag folding, the peculiar way of resolving the landscape with clumps of trees, the correctness of the drawing, the rich colouring and the mastery in painting animals that recall his Venetian training.
The subject of the first canvas is the Reconstruction after the Flood with Noah's sacrifice and God's Covenant with Noah. In the foreground are Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, with their wives, building a shelter for the animals after the Flood. These events are recorded in Genesis 8-9,’ as specified in the study.
‘There is a canvas with the same composition signed by Orrente in the Diocesan Museum of Orihuela.
[...]
In the Sacrifice of Isaac, Pedro Orrente is very faithful to the text with the presence of the donkey and Abraham's two servants, as narrated in Genesis 22’, Gómez Frechina's study specifies. ‘The composition of this Sacrifice of Isaac by Pedro Orrente is unique to our knowledge. We know of no other signed version or copy of this same landscape composition. We do know of a canvas by Orrente in the Museo Nacional del Prado with Abraham and Isaac on the Way to the Sacrifice in a landscape composition (P00330; oil on canvas, 116 x 161 cm). Orrente signed another painting of the Sacrifice of Isaac in circa 1616, which is kept in the Bilbao Fine Art Museum (oil on canvas 133,5 x 167 cm).”
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Pedro de Orrente (Murcia, 1580 - Valencia, 1645)
‘The Sacrifice of Isaac’ and “Reconstruction after the Flood (Noah's Sacrifice and God's Pact with Noah)”.
Pair of oil paintings on canvas.
106 x 147 cm each.
Attached is a study by the art historian José Gómez Frechina, from which we extract the following summary:
‘Pedro Orrente played a primordial role in the dissemination of early naturalism in Castile and, especially, in Valencia. […] The key to understanding Pedro Orrente's extensive pictorial production and his non-conformity in the reigns of Philip III and his son Philip IV is to be found in his Italian training, which is already reflected in artistic literature,’ the study states.
‘Jusepe Martínez, painter to Philip IV and treatise writer [...] tells us of his many travels and of his production of series based on the Old Testament, as is the case with the pair of autographed canvases by Pedro Orrente that are the subject of this study.
[...]
The young Pedro Orrente's formative journey to the Italian peninsula at the end of 1602, his possible stay in Rome, and his certain stay in Venice provide a reasoned explanation for the style of his art and his extensive and certain knowledge of the paintings of Leandro da Ponte (Bassano del Grappa, 1557 - Venice, 1622), better known as Bassano after his place of birth.
[...]
His narrative ability is outstanding in the excellent execution of important pictorial ensembles in which he put his great talent for creation and invention to the test. In some cases literature and painting intertwine in a perfect union between the printed letter with its multiple messages and the colours and lines of the painting with its suggestive beauty. This is the case, for example, of the stories of Jacob, Moses, Noah or the patriarch Abraham’.
With regard to the paintings in the auction, Gómez Frechina reports that ‘they are two previously unknown canvases by Pedro Orrente. The stylistic characteristics of the two canvases reveal Orrente's signature character with the typical zigzag folding, the peculiar way of resolving the landscape with clumps of trees, the correctness of the drawing, the rich colouring and the mastery in painting animals that recall his Venetian training.
The subject of the first canvas is the Reconstruction after the Flood with Noah's sacrifice and God's Covenant with Noah. In the foreground are Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, with their wives, building a shelter for the animals after the Flood. These events are recorded in Genesis 8-9,’ as specified in the study.
‘There is a canvas with the same composition signed by Orrente in the Diocesan Museum of Orihuela.
[...]
In the Sacrifice of Isaac, Pedro Orrente is very faithful to the text with the presence of the donkey and Abraham's two servants, as narrated in Genesis 22’, Gómez Frechina's study specifies. ‘The composition of this Sacrifice of Isaac by Pedro Orrente is unique to our knowledge. We know of no other signed version or copy of this same landscape composition. We do know of a canvas by Orrente in the Museo Nacional del Prado with Abraham and Isaac on the Way to the Sacrifice in a landscape composition (P00330; oil on canvas, 116 x 161 cm). Orrente signed another painting of the Sacrifice of Isaac in circa 1616, which is kept in the Bilbao Fine Art Museum (oil on canvas 133,5 x 167 cm).”
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