Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010215Our Lady of Good Counsel
About the Artwork
This painting loosely and inventively depicts an actual chapel in the former Jesuit Imperial College in Madrid, which housed a Madonna and Child in gilded and painted wood, a focus of popular devotion. Pérez made temporary decorations for the Spanish court, none of which survive, but the fanciful architecture, curiously inverted obelisks, fruits and flowers, and pastel colors all stem from this side of his work. By representing a polychrome sculpture in two dimensions, Pérez further blurred boundaries between painting and sculpture. This intersection of the spiritual and the real worlds was important in Spanish art of the 1600s.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: "B.me. P.z D." In ribbon on top: N. Señora del /Buen Consejo Under figure at left: S. Franco Under figure at right: B.S. Luys. Gonzaga
Provenance
- ca. 1996 Private collection (South of France), sold to Galeries Terrades. 1996-2012 Galeries Terrades (Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bartolomé Pérez (Spanish, 1634–1693)
- Date
- c. 1680
- Medium
- oil on copper
- Dimensions
- Framed: 50 x 40 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.); Unframed: 37 x 26 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 2012.5
Open-access museum record · AT-00010215
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