Spanish saints
Ca. 1882. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
This preparatory sketch belongs to the project for the decoration of the basilica of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid. In this case, it is intended to decorate the vault of the basilica´s presbytery, together with the painting Spanish female saints (P006705). Both works have an extremely simple composition, with eight figures, two standing and six genuflecting, supported by a cloud beneath which are three angels. In Spanish Saints are represented, from left to right, Saint Vincent Ferrer (Valencia, 1350–1419), Saint Leander (Cartagena, ca. 534–Seville, 596), Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa, 1491–Rome, 1556), Saint Ferdinand (1199–Seville, 1252), Saint Raymond of Peñafort (Peñafort, Barcelona, 1175/1180–Barcelona, 1275), Saint Isidore (Madrid, ca. 1082–1172), Saint Hermenegild (564–Tarragona, 585) and Saint Ildephonsus (Toledo, 607–667).
G. Navarro, Carlos, Los bocetos para la decoración de San Francisco el Grande (1880-1889). Boletín del Museo del Prado, 2003, p.64