Saint Francis before Pope Honorius III (San Francisco ante el Papa Honorio III)

Spanish Colonial Art
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Saint Francis before Pope Honorius III (San Francisco ante el Papa Honorio III)

Mexico, Puebla, circa 1710
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 58 1/2 × 86 1/2 in. (148.6 × 219.7 cm); framed (estimate): 64 7/8 × 92 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (164.78 × 235.11 × 4.13 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2012.143.1)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Carlos Alberto Osona, Santa Barbara, California, 1980s; Osuna Art & Antiques Ltd....
Carlos Alberto Osona, Santa Barbara, California, 1980s; Osuna Art & Antiques Ltd. (Ramón Osuna), Washington, DC, 1986; Frederick and Jan Mayer, Denver, 1988; on loan to the Denver Art Museum, 1988–2007; Valery Taylor Gallery (Valery Taylor Brown), Denver, 2008; LACMA, 2012.
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Label

This painting depicts a scene from the life of Saint Francis in which the pope presents him with the written rule of the Franciscan order in 1223.

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This painting depicts a scene from the life of Saint Francis in which the pope presents him with the written rule of the Franciscan order in 1223. Luis Berrueco, who descended from a prominent dynasty of painters in Puebla, created the work during a turbulent time for Mexico’s church, when the authority of the mendicant orders was under siege. The picture was likely commissioned as a declaration of the power of the regular orders and their role in the religious life of New Spain, which included the administration of Indigenous parishes.


From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Ilona Katzew in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 6, pp. 50–53)
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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