Sacred Conversation with the Immaculate Conception and the Divine Shepherd (Sacra Conversación con la Inmaculada Concepción y el Divino Pastor)

Spanish Colonial Art
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Sacred Conversation with the Immaculate Conception and the Divine Shepherd (Sacra Conversación con la Inmaculada Concepción y el Divino Pastor)

Mexico, 1719
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 22 13/16 × 33 1/16 in. (57.9 × 84 cm); framed: 27 7/16 × 37 3/8 × 1 in. (69.69 × 94.93 × 2.54 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2020.7)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Possibly the Pazo A Freiría, Puebla de Trives, Galicia, Spain; family of José Antonio Quiroga y Piñeyro (1931–2020), Galicia, by the 19th century; antiquarian David Sanesteban Maceira, La Coruña, Spai...
Possibly the Pazo A Freiría, Puebla de Trives, Galicia, Spain; family of José Antonio Quiroga y Piñeyro (1931–2020), Galicia, by the 19th century; antiquarian David Sanesteban Maceira, La Coruña, Spain, 2019; Palau Antiguitats (Albert Martí Palau), Barcelona, 2019; Caylus Anticuario SA, Madrid, 2019; LACMA, 2020.
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Label

This imaginative painting depicts a rapturous vision of a Conceptionist nun wearing a prominent badge on her chest.

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This imaginative painting depicts a rapturous vision of a Conceptionist nun wearing a prominent badge on her chest. She engages in a sacred conversation with Saint John of the Cross, the famed sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, as she hands him her kindled heart. To the left, the Immaculate Conception blossoms from a giant lily (symbolic of her purity), while Christ is portrayed as the Good Shepherd in the center. The bridge symbolizes the mystical passage, implying that the nun’s ecstasy and communion with the saint was aided by Mary and her son.


From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Ilona Katzew in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 17, pp. 110–13)
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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