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This painting is of considerable interest as there are very few surviving works by this artist, who was a fine example of the last generation of great decorators from Madrid. The architectural setting is notable in its resemblance to Claudio Coello´s manner, as are the figures of the angels. The color scheme is warm but rather muted, with handsome yellows, ochers and grayish greens that are
As Lafuente Ferrari (1941) pointed out when publishing this work, it is a significant example of the passionately baroque tone of late 17th-century painting in Madrid. The same critic mentions the clear influence of the Triumph of Saint Augustine (P664), which Claudio Coello painted thirty years earlier in 1664. And it is indeed possible to draw a certain correlation between the postures of the tw
