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My original drawing is available to purchase in my Etsy shop [~ 11.7 x 16.5” | 42 x 29.7cm, A3]. Works ship worldwide. Available until 6th Sept or when sold. My drawings are just €149/£133 each
He married a third time in 1644. The Virgin of Mercy (1630-50), Still Life (c1640) & Still Life (1640). It’s notable that he saw his religious images as objects of mediation whereas his fruit pieces are painted for maximum veracity.
The Elders of Seville invited him to move there permanently to add lustre to the culture of the city. In 1639 his wife died. Childhood of the Virgin (1658-60), Madonna & Child (1658) & the Holy Family (1659) these are some of his most tender images.
His paintings of Hercules are unusual in his oeuvre in depicting mythology. His lamb of God is one of the great depictions of an animal in 17th C Spanish art. Hercules & Cereberus (c1634), Hercules Fighting with the Lernaean Hydra (c1634) & Agnus Dei (1635-40)
In 1628 he was commissioned to paint 22 pictures by the Mercedarians. Nativity of the Virgin (1628), Apparition of St Peter to St Peter of Nolasco (1629) & the Lying in State of St Bonaventura (1629)
These rulers not only loved their pound of flesh but also wanted it by the yard. And they wanted it in the form of a Titian nude (safely described as the mythological Venus, if possible) - works from the 1550s. Often they were hidden by curtains, only to be revealed to other men