Immaculate Conception #10

Painting of the Immaculate Conception that meets all the iconographic characteristics of the time: on the globe of the moon, surrounded by little angels with flowers and garlands and cherubs among the clouds. Marzolf records as a variant of this Inmaculada, another existing in Madrid in the Finat collection and Pérez Sánchez has noted that the one in the Hispanic Society of New York fuses elements of the one in the Institute and the one in the Museum of Vitoria (dated 1666 and close, like all of Carreño’s, very faithful to the type created in 1662, to those of Adanero and Gómez-Moreno). This canvas was bought in Madrid from Dñª Cristina Balaca. It came from the Convent of Santa Isabel in Madrid, where it was until 1936. / Extracted from: A.A.V.V.: Instituto Gómez-Moreno (catalog). Bibliography: Pérez Sánchez, A.E.: “Une vision nouvelle de la peinture espagnole du Siècle d’Or”, Revue de l’Art, 1985, pp. 56-58.