École Espagnole (c. 1630) - San Pedro de Alcántara

- Oil on canvas. Canvas relined.

- The Spanish mystic St. Peter of Alcantara, celebrated for his profound learning and rigorous asceticism, as well as for his close relationship with Saint Teresa of Jesus, is captured in this portrait with austere severity. His round countenance emerges from the shadows of his cell, a bare space that dramatically contrasts with the formal complexity of courtly painting from the era of Philip III. The artist achieves an almost expressionistic intensity, where the austerity of the setting amplifies the subject's devotion: books are reduced to square volumes on a skeletal bookshelf, and the chair supporting the cleric is the minimal expression of furniture. This work, genuine and forceful, stands as a firm statement of the eloquence and inner intensity of Spanish art in the first quarter of the seventeenth century.

- Image dimensions without frame: 81 x 91 cm / 92 x 103 cm with an old, raw wood frame.

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