ACISCLO ANTONIO PALOMINO Y VELASCO Bujalance (Cordoba) (165

Oil on canvas. On the back, attached to the frame, there is a label from the Board of Seizure, Protection and Salvage of Artistic Treasures. Provenance: Collection of Don Fernando Osorio de Moscoso, Duke of Medina de las Torres. In the second half of the 17th century, representations of Little Saint John were very common, often paired with those of the Child Jesus, as is the case here (see lot 196). Palomino made several versions of this theme, such as the one shown here, in which he repeats the same composition as the painting of the same name in the Prado Museum, which came from the collection of Queen Isabella Farnese and is now housed in the Zaragoza Museum (P001027). The artist depicts a tender child model, seated and embracing his quintessential iconographic attribute: the lamb. His painting is notable for its brilliant color palette, with its characteristic indigo and pink shades of the sky, and for its mastery of perspective, depicting the figure in a complicated foreshortened position. We would like to thank Natividad Galindo for her assistance in cataloging this lot. Dimensions: 49 x 39.5 cm.