Title

The Virgin and Child with Repentant Sinners

Author

Dyck, Anthony van

Antwerp, 1599 - London, 1641

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Observations

It is probably the painting owned by the Duke of Medina de las Torres, Viceroy of Naples until 1643.  

It was chosen to decorate the antechristy of El Escorial. Memory (1656); described by Padre Santos (1657).

It was considered lost in the vicissitudes of the French invasion until its recent identification with the one preserved in the Royal Academy of San Fernando (Díaz Padrón, 2012).

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Restorations

• 2010, Silvia Viana y Ángeles Solís, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

  Restoration report

Bibliography

• Matías Díaz Padrón (with the colaboration of Jahel Sanzsalzar and Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez) (2012): Van Dyck en España, vol. I, Editorial Prensa Ibérica, Barcelona, pp. 228-235, il. Cat. 6.
• Matías Díaz Padrón (2012): "Van Dyck: The painting of The Virgin and Child with Repentant Sinners from the Ante-Sacristy of El Escorial, identified at The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid", Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belguiqe, vol. 81, pp. 111-128.
• Alfonso Pérez Sánchez (1964): Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Inventario de pinturas, Madrid, p. 35.

Locations

• 1656 - 1800: Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain)
• Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (Spain) (Inventory number: 0323)