ANA CHICLANA
Espagne
Bravo Murillo 54, 28003 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 360 07 12
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Having learned the profession in the Parisian art market, Ana Chiclana opened a gallery in Madrid about twenty years ago to develop a quality market in Spain in the field of old paintings and drawings.
She particularly works with quality Spanish paintings and also extends her interest to the Northern schools, a culture very present in the history of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her gallery has an office in Paris, which allows her to maintain a Parisian presence for those interested in Spanish painting.
The gallery regularly participates in national and international fairs: Feriarte Madrid since 2003, Paris Tableau 2017, La Biennale des Antiquaires and Biennale Paris since 2012, FAB 2021, 2023 and 2024.
Jerónimo Jacinto de ESPINOSA
(Cocentaina, Alicante 1600 – Valence, 1667)
Portrait of the Knight of the Order of Montesa
Oil on canvas
207 × 110 cm
Signed and dated:“HIERO’ HYA= / ZINTHUS DE / ESPINOSA FECIT / 1634”
(“Hieronymus Hyacinthus de Espinosa made [this] in 1634”)
Inscription on the original canvas reverse side: “FRAY D. FELIPE VIVES DE CAÑAMÁS Y / MOMPALAÚ, KNIGHT OF MONTESA, SUB-CLAVEIRO AND LIEUTENANT OF THE MASTER OF THE VILLAGES OF MONTESA AND VALLADA.”
Provenance
- Private collection
Exhibition
- Valencia, Museu de Belles Arts de Valencia, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (1600–1667), September–November 2000, cat. 6, pp. 84–85
- Rome, Academia de España, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (1600–1667), December 2000–January 2001, cat. 4, pp. 54–55
- Castellón, Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón, January–April 2001, cat. 6, pp. 84–85
- Alicante, Museo de Bellas Artes Gravina, December 2001–February 2002, cat. 6
- New York, The Spanish Institute, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (1600–1667), November 2002–January 2003, cat. 4, pp. 56–57
- Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Caravaggio and European Realist Painting, October 2005–January 2006, cat. 29, pp. 146–149
Literature
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Ferrán Salvador, V., “Regarding the paintings of Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia,” Archivo del Arte Valenciano, 1961, pp. 54–55
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Pérez Sánchez, A., Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Madrid: CSIC, 1972, p. 29
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Cerdà i Ballester, J., The Knights and Religious of the Order of Montesa in the time of the Habsburgs (1592–1700), Madrid: CSIC, 2014
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Pérez Sánchez, A., in the exhibition catalogue Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, The Spanish Institute, New York, November 19, 2002–January 31, 2003, Valencia, 2002, no. 4, pp. 56–57
Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa is one of the great artistic figures of the Valencian school of the first half of the 17th century.
He painted numerous religious compositions and excelled in the art of portraiture. Throughout his career, he remained faithful to the lessons of naturalism imbued with tenebrism, on the fringes of the new stylistic trends emerging in the capital.
The Portrait of the Knight of the Order of Montesa stands out for its great plastic force.
Espinosa succeeds here in capturing the psychological character of this high dignitary. He is depicted standing on a neutral, dark background. The tiled floor is composed of two-tone azulejos – here white and black – and red tiles, creating a most refined space. The artist gives the model a certain power, but his haughty pose, his gaze and the religious atmosphere that emanates from him soften the character of the work.
The Order of Montesa was founded by King James II of Aragon, who, after the suppression of the military organisation of the Knights Templar in 1312, negotiated with Pope Clement V to create a new order endowed with the property that the Knights Templar and the Order of Hospitallers owned in the Valencia region.
This new order was confirmed after the death of Clement V by his successor, Pope John XXII, in 1317. James II offered this new institution, whose role was to defend the border of the Kingdom of Valencia against Muslim invaders, the fortress and town of Montesa. To join, all members – both knights and monks (called Brothers) – had to take an oath and vow obedience, chastity and poverty. They also had to claim the status of ‘purity of blood’ (limpieza de sangre). In 1588, the brothers were granted the right to marry and start families, and in 1592 the order was attached to the Spanish Crown, with King Philip II becoming its general administrator. In 1634, King Philip IV took charge, and during his reign, 156 knights were knighted.
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