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Artworks
JOSEFA SANCHEZ
Jesus Christ on the cross with the Virgin, Spain, 17th CenturySigned and dated 1646Oil on panelProvenance
Private Collection
-The cell crosses were devotional objects very numerous at the spanish and spanish colonial convents and monasteries. - This devotional Cross is exceptional as it is dated and signed by...-The cell crosses were devotional objects very numerous at the spanish and spanish colonial convents and monasteries.- This devotional Cross is exceptional as it is dated and signed by Josefa Sanchez in 1646.- The panel has the form of a Cross. Christ is painted in agony and an Inmaculate Virgin is depicted in the lower partof the Cross. She has a beautiful long and curly hair, a white dress and a very rich and ornated mantle.- Until now the information of Josefa Sanchez is very brief. She was active as a painter in the second quarter of the 17thcentury. She was deeply inspired by the ascetic naturalist Crucifixes by Luis Tristán. It was posible that she was fromCastilla, maybe she was a nun and she was related to the painter Clemente Sanchez.5of 5
