Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception)

1690

Fray Eugenio Guitierrez de Torices Spanish, 1653 - 1709

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About the Artwork

Title Tota Pulcra (Immaculate Conception)

Artwork Date 1690

Artist Fray Eugenio Guitierrez de Torices

Life Dates 1653 - 1709

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

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

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

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Coll & Cortés LTD.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2014.40

Markings

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

Inscriptions 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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Credit Line for Reproduction

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.