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Josefa Sánchez (active between 1639 and 1652, possibly in Castile).
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Josefa Sánchez (active between 1639 and 1652, possibly in Castile).
Carved and painted wooden cross for a monk / nun's cell. At the feet of the crucified Christ, we find the representation of Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus.
56.7 x 37.3 cm.
Attached is a certificate from Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, dated December 20, 2024.
Numerous women artists in this and any other field of art and society throughout history have faced indifference, ignorance and collective contempt, most of them will never be recognized, as they have fallen into inexorable anonymity. The artist, María Josefa Sánchez, is no exception to this unfair rule. Fortunately, however, in recent years the work of women artists of great renown such as María Josefa Sánchez has been revisited, shining the spotlight where shadows have always reigned. This arduous task, made more difficult by the scarcity of information, was begun by Mrs. Carmen G. Perez-Neu in the case of our painter (and many others) in her book “Universal Gallery of Women Painters” (1964), a start that seemed the beginning of a long journey through the desert, but that has borne fruit. In fact, welcome news came recently of the acquisition, by the Meadows Museum of Dallas, of a cross for private worship by Josefa Sánchez, in the summer of 2024. This piece, which was purchased along with a still life by Josefa de Ayala, “demonstrates her artistic skill [and] highlights her role in shaping the religious expression and spirituality of the period,” the museum states in the release announcing the acquisition.
Both the cross (inv. MM.2024.10) from the Meadows, a museum that “houses one of the largest and most complete collections of Spanish art outside Spain”, and especially another magnificent painted cross, signed and dated 1646, exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (inv. 2018.52), have an undoubted resemblance to the cross we present in this auction.
María Josefa Sánchez (active between 1639 and 1652, probably in Castile) specialized, in fact, in the production of crosses like this one, popular objects for private worship in Spain and Latin America, widely used in 17th century devotional painting.
The first artwork by Sánchez, which put her on the map of relevant artists of the Spanish Golden Age was made known by José de Mesa and Teresa Gisbert in their publication, in 1970, for the Spanish Art Archive (volume 43, no. 169). As the art historian Fernando Collar de Cáceres points out in his article “Sobre algunas cruces pintadas de María Josefa Sánchez” (Pursuant to some painted crosses by María Josefa Sánchez) (1989), the aim of this publication was not to extol the quality of the piece, a cross signed and dated 1639, but the “contribution of the name of this unknown artist to the meager repertoire of Spanish painters”. In addition to numerous iconographic and stylistic contributions by Collar -we strongly recommend reading the article- the historian reveals that this first piece ended up being two: a signed copy located in the Monastery of San Antonio el Real in Segovia, with a slender, upright Christ that “responds to late 16th-century models [such as] those of Tristán or Bartolomé de Cárdenas,” with Adam's skull at the lower end of the cross and the Immaculate Conception between the two; and the second one is the painted Christ of the Convent of Santo Domingo el Real, from 1649, with, at His feet, “a young woman dressed in white and kneeling on a weightless sphere wrapped in fire [who] receives into her heart the blood that flows from the Christ's side”.
This cross is accompanied by Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen's certificate detailing the small but rich corpus by Josefa Sánchez, an artist whose legacy arouses great interest, as evidenced by her presence in exhibitions such as “Spain: art and empire in the Golden Age” (San Diego Museum of Art, 2019) and “Leaving her mark: a history of women artists in Europe, 1400-1800” (Baltimore Museum of Art and Art Gallery of Ontario, 2024).
This lot has a valid export license from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Reference Bibliography:
- Collar de Cáceres, Fernando. (1989). “Sobre algunas cruces pintadas de María Josefa Sánchez” Estudios Segovianos. XXX, 86. Págs. 355-373. https://estudiossegovianos.es/?page_id=5239
- Mesa, José de; Gisbert, Teresa. (1970). “Una pintora española del siglo XVII: Josefa Sánchez”. Archivo Español de Arte; Madrid Tomo 43, N.º 169, p. 93. https://www.proquest.com/openview/a1333d2d147e109f28f66baa6fa987be/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818508
- Hernández Miranda, Julián. (2024). “El Meadows Museum anuncia la adquisición de dos pinturas de mujeres artistas del Barroco”. Meadows Museum. https://meadowsmuseumdallas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Ayala-Sanchez-Acquisition-Release-FINAL-FORMATTED-SP-WEB.pdf
- Art Institute of Chicago. (2019). “María Josefa Sánchez’s Crucifixion”. https://www.artic.edu/articles/780/maria-josefa-sanchezs-crucifixion
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Josefa Sánchez (active between 1639 and 1652, possibly in Castile).
Carved and painted wooden cross for a monk / nun's cell. At the feet of the crucified Christ, we find the representation of Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus.
56.7 x 37.3 cm.
Attached is a certificate from Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, dated December 20, 2024.
Numerous women artists in this and any other field of art and society throughout history have faced indifference, ignorance and collective contempt, most of them will never be recognized, as they have fallen into inexorable anonymity. The artist, María Josefa Sánchez, is no exception to this unfair rule. Fortunately, however, in recent years the work of women artists of great renown such as María Josefa Sánchez has been revisited, shining the spotlight where shadows have always reigned. This arduous task, made more difficult by the scarcity of information, was begun by Mrs. Carmen G. Perez-Neu in the case of our painter (and many others) in her book “Universal Gallery of Women Painters” (1964), a start that seemed the beginning of a long journey through the desert, but that has borne fruit. In fact, welcome news came recently of the acquisition, by the Meadows Museum of Dallas, of a cross for private worship by Josefa Sánchez, in the summer of 2024. This piece, which was purchased along with a still life by Josefa de Ayala, “demonstrates her artistic skill [and] highlights her role in shaping the religious expression and spirituality of the period,” the museum states in the release announcing the acquisition.
Both the cross (inv. MM.2024.10) from the Meadows, a museum that “houses one of the largest and most complete collections of Spanish art outside Spain”, and especially another magnificent painted cross, signed and dated 1646, exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (inv. 2018.52), have an undoubted resemblance to the cross we present in this auction.
María Josefa Sánchez (active between 1639 and 1652, probably in Castile) specialized, in fact, in the production of crosses like this one, popular objects for private worship in Spain and Latin America, widely used in 17th century devotional painting.
The first artwork by Sánchez, which put her on the map of relevant artists of the Spanish Golden Age was made known by José de Mesa and Teresa Gisbert in their publication, in 1970, for the Spanish Art Archive (volume 43, no. 169). As the art historian Fernando Collar de Cáceres points out in his article “Sobre algunas cruces pintadas de María Josefa Sánchez” (Pursuant to some painted crosses by María Josefa Sánchez) (1989), the aim of this publication was not to extol the quality of the piece, a cross signed and dated 1639, but the “contribution of the name of this unknown artist to the meager repertoire of Spanish painters”. In addition to numerous iconographic and stylistic contributions by Collar -we strongly recommend reading the article- the historian reveals that this first piece ended up being two: a signed copy located in the Monastery of San Antonio el Real in Segovia, with a slender, upright Christ that “responds to late 16th-century models [such as] those of Tristán or Bartolomé de Cárdenas,” with Adam's skull at the lower end of the cross and the Immaculate Conception between the two; and the second one is the painted Christ of the Convent of Santo Domingo el Real, from 1649, with, at His feet, “a young woman dressed in white and kneeling on a weightless sphere wrapped in fire [who] receives into her heart the blood that flows from the Christ's side”.
This cross is accompanied by Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen's certificate detailing the small but rich corpus by Josefa Sánchez, an artist whose legacy arouses great interest, as evidenced by her presence in exhibitions such as “Spain: art and empire in the Golden Age” (San Diego Museum of Art, 2019) and “Leaving her mark: a history of women artists in Europe, 1400-1800” (Baltimore Museum of Art and Art Gallery of Ontario, 2024).
This lot has a valid export license from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Reference Bibliography:
- Collar de Cáceres, Fernando. (1989). “Sobre algunas cruces pintadas de María Josefa Sánchez” Estudios Segovianos. XXX, 86. Págs. 355-373. https://estudiossegovianos.es/?page_id=5239
- Mesa, José de; Gisbert, Teresa. (1970). “Una pintora española del siglo XVII: Josefa Sánchez”. Archivo Español de Arte; Madrid Tomo 43, N.º 169, p. 93. https://www.proquest.com/openview/a1333d2d147e109f28f66baa6fa987be/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818508
- Hernández Miranda, Julián. (2024). “El Meadows Museum anuncia la adquisición de dos pinturas de mujeres artistas del Barroco”. Meadows Museum. https://meadowsmuseumdallas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Ayala-Sanchez-Acquisition-Release-FINAL-FORMATTED-SP-WEB.pdf
- Art Institute of Chicago. (2019). “María Josefa Sánchez’s Crucifixion”. https://www.artic.edu/articles/780/maria-josefa-sanchezs-crucifixion
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