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

- Oil on canvas. Canvas re-stretched.

- The Spanish mystic Saint Peter of Alcántara, renowned for his deep learning and strict asceticism, as well as for his close relationship with Saint Teresa of Jesús, is captured in this portrait with austere severity. His round features emerge in the dimness of his cell, a stripped-down space that dramatically contrasts with the formal complexity of court painting from the Felipe III era. The artist achieves an almost expressionist intensity, where the austerity of the setting amplifies the subject’s devotion: books are reduced to square volumes on a skeletal shelf, and the chair supporting the monk is the minimal expression of furniture. This work, genuine and forceful, stands as a bold statement of the eloquence and inward intensity of Spanish art during the first quarter of the seventeenth century.

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

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