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Attributed to Francisco Antonio Vallejo
Allegory of the Crucifixion with Jesuit Saints (Alegoría de la Crucifixión con santos jesuitas)circa 1770

Not on view
Oil painting, multi-figure religious composition centered on a crucifixion scene surrounded by saints, angels, and kneeling figures in tiered heavenly and earthly zones
Artist or Maker
Attributed to Francisco Antonio Vallejo
Mexico, 1722-1787
Title
Allegory of the Crucifixion with Jesuit Saints (Alegoría de la Crucifixión con santos jesuitas)
Date Made
circa 1770
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Unframed: 32 1/2 × 22 1/4 in. (82.6 × 56.5 cm); framed: 40 3/8 × 33 5/8 × 2 1/2 in. (102.55 × 85.41 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund
Accession Number
M.2016.110.2
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes

This painting of Christ surrounded by saints was likely created for a member of the Jesuit order—presumably the canon on the lower right who gazes at the viewer. Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the order, kneels in the foreground in front of the pope and opposite the king of Spain, who relinquish their crowns and pay homage to Christ. This type of image might have served a mnemonic function, helping devotees to recall the lives of the saints. It was also a poignant allegory of divine over earthly power.


From exhibition Archive of the World, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Ilona Katzew in the accompanying publication, cat. no. 25, pp. 129–32)

Provenance
José Joaquín de Arguinzoniz (b. 1778, Durango, Spain; in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 1803–c. 1815; returned to Durango, c. 1815); or his grandson Joaquín Arguinzoniz y Díez Gutiérrez (1845–1911), San Luis Potosí (property shipped to Durango, c. 1914); by inheritance to Antonio Manuel Arguinzoniz Garay Artabe (b. 1852, Durango) and María del Carmen Arguinzoniz y Olalde (1886–1971, Bilbao, Spain); by inheritance to her daughter María Begoña Díaz de Mendívil Arguinzoniz (1923–2015, b. Vitoria, Spain, d. Madrid); Caylus Anticuario SA, Madrid, 2015; LACMA, 2016.
Selected 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.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 12, 2022 - October 30, 2022
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. October 20, 2023 - January 28, 2024
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024
  • Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. June 22, 2024 - September 08, 2024