The Marriage of the Virgin (Desposorios de la Virgen)

Spanish Colonial Art
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The Marriage of the Virgin (Desposorios de la Virgen)

Mexico, 1668
Paintings
Oil on canvas on panel
Unframed: 75 5/8 × 50 3/8 in. (192.1 × 129 cm); framed: 85 × 60 × 3 1/4 in. (215.9 × 152.4 × 8.26 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2010.97)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Private collection, France, first half of the 20th century; art market, Paris, 1960; María del Carmen de Alfonso Perdomo, Madrid, 1960; Galería Coll & Cortés, Madrid, 2010; LACMA, 2010.

Label

The subject of the Marriage of the Virgin draws on apocryphal accounts of the lives of the saints, such as Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend (c. 1260).

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The subject of the Marriage of the Virgin draws on apocryphal accounts of the lives of the saints, such as Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend (c. 1260). An unusual detail are the disembodied hands that descend from heaven to symbolize God’s intervention in human affairs. This element gained currency in Mexico and was repeated by several seventeenth-century painters.

Pedro Ramírez el Mozo (the Younger) descended from a prominent Sevillian family of sculptors and altarpiece makers (ensambladores). The large size of this panel suggests that it might have formed part of a retablo (altarpiece) ensemble.


From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Ilona Katzew in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 3, pp. 38–41)
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Bibliography

  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.

Exhibition history

  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 Nashville, TN, Frist Art Museum, October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024