Featured Lot - Attributable to Alonso del Arco (Madrid, 1635-Madrid, 1704) Exceptional and Large Virgin of the Dove, Madrid Master of the 17th century

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Apr 15, 2026

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  Oil on canvas. Dimensions 120 x 99 cm. (Madrid, c. 1635-1704). Spanish painter. Deaf and mute from birth, details of his artistic vocation and training are unknown before he became a disciple and main collaborator of Antonio de Pereda. Nicknamed "El Sordillo de Pereda, " he participated in the 1679-1680 preparations for the festivities for the entry of Queen Maria Luisa of Orleans, first wife of Charles II, together with the artists Claudio Coello, José Jiménez Donoso, Francisco Ignacio Ruiz de la Iglesia and Matías de Torres, among others. From this period, the 1675-1685 altarpieces of Saint John the Baptist (Church of San Juan del Mercado, Guadalajara) and Saint Philip Neri (Church of the Trinitarians, Madrid) stand out; Child Jesus Asleep on the Cross (1681, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid); Apparition of the Virgin of Mercy to Saint Peter Nolasco (1682, Prado); numerous versions of the Immaculate Conception (Prado, parish church of Villanubla in Valladolid and convent of the Augustinian nuns in Valladolid); Mary Magdalene Stripping Her Jewels (Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, Oviedo); and Annunciation (Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid), among others. He also painted landscape scenes and portraits, such as Mariana of Austria (1696, Museum of Santa Cruz, Toledo) and Cardinal Juan Everardo Nithard (1674, Council of State, Madrid). In the 1690s, he had an active workshop, which explains the large number of surviving works, although not all of them are of the same quality of execution and style. Considered one of the most prolific artists of the 17th-century Madrid school, he also worked in fresco technique in the decoration of the alcove of the Hermitage of the Virgin of the Olive (Almonacid, Toledo) with scenes from the life of the Virgin (in situ) in 1689. The composition shows the Virgin of Sorrows in a prayerful attitude, framed by deep red curtains that reinforce the drama of the scene. Her downcast face and clasped hands convey an intense ...
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