Mateo Cerezo the Younger

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Mateo Cerezo: Ecce Homo , 98 × 75 cm, Szépművészeti Múzeum , Budapest
Mateo Cerezo: Mystical Wedding of Saint Catherine , 1660, 207 × 163 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado

Mateo Cerezo (* before the 19th April 1637 in Burgos ; † 29. June 1666 in Madrid ) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque and despite his early death at the age of only 29 years one of the most important masters of the Madrid school of painting.

biography

He was the son of the painter Mateo Cerezo Muñoz (also called Mateo Cerezo the Elder) and Isabel Delgado, the daughter of a well-known goldsmith from Burgos. He received his first training from his father. At an early age he went to Madrid, where he became one of the best and most promising students of Juan Carreño de Miranda ; He probably also worked as an employee on some of Carreño's works from around 1645.

Cerezo's own style was shaped by Spanish models such as Antonio de Pereda , Carreño and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , as well as by Tizian , Veronese , Correggio and Anthonis van Dyck , whose works he had become acquainted with in the royal and other private collections. He was particularly active in Madrid, temporarily also in Burgos , Valladolid and Valencia , where he mainly painted deeply felt altarpieces for various churches and devotional pictures for domestic use.
His last work, according to Palomino, was a Last Supper in the refectory of the Augustinian Recollects' convent in Madrid, which is only known today from a print by José del Castillo from 1778. Cerezo's Last Supper was confiscated by Joseph Bonaparte in the Napoleonic Wars before 1811 , was in the possession of the Marquis de Goicoerrotea in 1932, who sold it for 50,000 pesetas in the same year , and is now missing (as of 2018).

Mateo Cerezo was a very hardworking painter and, given his early death, left behind a relatively extensive oeuvre. His paintings can be found among others. a. in the churches of Madrid and the surrounding area, Burgos, Valladolid and Valencia; a stock of at least 10 pictures in the Prado in Madrid, an ecce homo in the Landesgalerie in Budapest , a Christ on the cross in the Berlin museum and other works scattered in various museums. Palomino mentions that his “ bodegoncillos ” were also very well known in his time; they were “painted with such outstanding mastery that no one could surpass them, even if some were equal” (“con tan superior excelencia, que ningunos le aventajaron, si es que le igualaron algunos "). The only bodegón dated (1664) by Cerezo is in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Mexico City .

Works (selection)

All pictures mentioned were painted in oil on canvas:

  • Mystical wedding of Saint Catherine , 1660, 207 × 163 cm, Prado , Madrid
  • Maria Immaculata ( Immaculate Conception ), around 1660, 211.5 × 147.5 cm, Prado, Madrid
  • Stigmatization of St. Francis , around 1660, 170 × 110 cm, Prado, Madrid
  • Appearance of the Virgin to Saint Francis , approx. 1660–1664, 246 × 176 cm, Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid
  • Penitent Mary Magdalene , 1661, 103 × 83 cm, Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam
  • Penitent Maria Magdalena , 1664, 100 × 80 cm, Vienna, Graf Czernin Gallery
  • Ecce Homo , approx. 1660–1666, 98 × 75 cm, Szépművészeti Múzeum , Budapest
  • Vision of Saint Augustine , 1663, 208 × 126 cm, Prado, Madrid
  • A poor soul before the court , 1663–1664, 145 × 104 cm, Prado, Madrid
  • Nativity , 140 × 120 cm, Gallery Dereck Johns, London
  • Assumption of the Virgin , 237 × 169 cm, Prado, Madrid (?)
  • Bodegón with Fish and Bread , 1664, Museo Nacional de San Carlos , Mexico City

  • Penitent Mary Magdalene , 1661, 103 × 83 cm, Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam

  • Nativity , 140 × 120 cm, Galery Dereck Johns, London

  • A poor soul before the court , 1663–1664, 145 × 104 cm, Prado , Madrid

  • Appearance of the Virgin to Saint Francis , approx. 1660–1664, 246 × 176 cm, Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid

literature

  • José Buendía & Ismael Gutiérrez Pastor: Vida y obra del pintor Mateo Cerezo (1637–1666) . Burgos: Diputación Provincial de Burgos, 1986. ISBN 84-5053-905-6 .
  • A. Palomino: El Museo Pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado , Madrid 1724. Detailed edition: Aguilar SA de Ediciones, Madrid 1988. ISBN 84-03-88005-7 .
  • Alfonso E. Pérez Sanchez: Carreño, Rizi, Herrera y la pintura madrileña de su tiempo (1650-1700) . Catalog of an exhibition at the Palacio Villahermosa, Madrid, January - March 1986. Ministerio de Cultura. ISBN 84-505-2957-3 .
  • Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez: Pintura barroca en España 1600-1750 . Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1992. ISBN 84-376-0994-1 .
  • E. Tormo: Mateo Cerezo , In: Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia. 3. 1927, p. 113 ff., 245 ff.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Buendía & Ismael Gutiérrez Pastor: Vida y obra del pintor Mateo Cerezo (1637–1666) . Burgos: Diputación Provincial de Burgos, 1986, p. 17.
  2. ↑ José Buendía & Ismael Gutiérrez Pastor: Vida y obra del pintor Mateo Cerezo (1637–1666) . Burgos ... 1986, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez: Pintura barroca en España 1600-1750 . Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1992, p. 316.
  4. ↑ José Buendía & Ismael Gutiérrez Pastor: Vida y obra del pintor Mateo Cerezo (1637–1666) . Burgos ... 1986, pp. 49 and 166.
  5. ↑ Mateo Cerezo on the Prado website, as viewed August 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cerezo, Mateo the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgos
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1666
Place of death Madrid