Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception)

Fray Eugenio Guitierrez de Torices Spanish, 1653 - 1709
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About the Artwork

Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception)

1690

Fray Eugenio Guitierrez de Torices

1653 - 1709

Spanish

Unknown

Colored wax, wire, glass, gold leaf, wood, painted wooden box, painted and gilded wooden frame

Overall: 14 × 11 3/8 × 3 3/4 inches (35.6 × 28.9 × 9.5 cm)

Sculpture

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of Coll & Cortés LTD.

2014.40

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Signed and dated, on strip of paper, inside the case, lower right corner: Fr. Eugeo ft. 1690

Inscribed, in ink, on a paper label, box verso: Fr. Eugenius Gutierrez de Torices ordinis Ba Ma de Mercedes Redemptionis captiviorum in suo segobiensi monasteri fat

Provenance

Gonzalo Moro

(Coll & Cortés LTD. Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain)

2014-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Avery, Victoria, Melissa Calaresu and Mary Lavens, eds. Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Exh. cat., the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge, 2015, p. 253, cat. no. 261, fig. 282.

Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): 501–512, p. 505 (ill.).

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Fray Eugenio Guitierrez de Torices, Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception), 1690, colored wax, wire, glass, gold leaf, wood, painted wooden box, painted and gilded wooden frame. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Coll & Cortés LTD., 2014.40.

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Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception)
Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception)