The Visitation

Before 1886.
On display elsewhere

Life-size plaster group of The Visitation, which had already been completed in 1886. It is a composition closely related to The Visitation of 1867 painted by Overbeck - a painting preserved today in Spoleto. Unlike most of the Visitations, in which Saint Elizabeth is old and represents herself in an attitude of respect before the Virgin, in these two cases it is presented as an almost equal to equal, affective and protective relationship.

Azcue Brea, Leticia, 'La melancolía de Roma: la escultura religiosa académica en la Corte alfonsina. Ecos puristas en la obra de Martín Riesco, los hermanos Vallmitjana o Samsó' En:. Svmma Stvdiorum Scvlptoricae, In memoriam Dr. Lorenzo Hernández Guardiola. II Congreso Internacional de Escultura Religiosa, Crevillent, octubre 2018, Alicante, Instituto alicantino de cultura y Diputación de Alicante, 2019, p.59-104 [88-89 lám. 18]

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Inventory number: E001028
Author: Juan Samsó
Title: The Visitation
Date: Before 1886
Medium: Plaster
Dimension: Height: 165 cm; Width: 105 cm; Depth: 44 cm
Provenance: Donated by Rodrigo Álvarez Blanco, 1915, for the Museo de Arte Moderno;</br>Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2016
Entry date: 2016

Bibliography +

“Noticias [Juan Samsó]”., La Unión, Madrid, 1886 31 de julio, pp. 3.

“Una obra de arte [El Salvador de Samsó]”., La última moda. Revista ilustrada hispanoamericana, 213, 1892, pp. 7.

Agulló y Cobo, Mercedes, Madrid en sus diarios, 1876-1890, Seminario de Bibliografía Hispánica de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de Madrid, 4, Madrid, 1961-1972, pp. 250.

Azcue Brea, Leticia, 'Juan Samsó' sub vocem, en: Diccionario biográfico español, Madrid, 2013, pp. 465-466.

Azcue Brea, Leticia, 'La melancolía de Roma: la escultura religiosa académica en la Corte alfonsina. Ecos puristas en la obra de Martín Riesco, los hermanos Vallmitjana o Samsó' En:, Svmma Stvdiorum Scvlptoricae, In memoriam Dr. Lorenzo Hernández Guardiola. II Congreso Internacional de Escultura Religiosa, Crevillent, octubre 2018, Alicante, 2019, pp. 59-104 [88-89 lám. 18].