Clemente Fernández de Torres, zugeschrieben
Gottvater mit Cherubim, 1675 - 1727
This drawing entered the Hamburger Kunsthalle with an attribution to Clemente Fernández de Torres, a painter from Cádiz. This was confirmed by August Mayer in 1918, but Jonathan Brown considered it closer to the style of Francisco de Herrera the Younger and, based on the drawing's pencil inscription (“Torres”), he proposed attributing it to Madrid artist Matías de Torres. The work's unfinished appearance suggests it was a preparatory sketch for an unidentified composition.
Clemente de Torres painted a work with the same subject matter for the keystone of an arch leading to the chancel of the Oratory of San Felipe Neri in Cádiz, which was consecrated in 1719. In that oval canvas, God the Father appears without cherubs. He offers his blessings with his right hand while holding the orb in his left
The verso of the present drawing has a sketch for the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, which resembles a work of the same name by Juan de Roelas (ca. 1568/70-1625) at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville.[1]
Jens Hoffmann-Samland
1. Oil on canvas, 204 x 1364 in. (520 x 346 cm), Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes, inv. CE0137P
Details zu diesem Werk
Beschriftung fremd: Unten in der Mitte links bezeichnet: "Torres" (Bleistift)
Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso nummeriert: "38" (Bleistift, um 90 Grad nach links gedreht)
[José Atanasio Echeverría]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio/Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (from 1874 to 1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of the property of Frederick William Cosens (from November 11 to 21, 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London (from November 1890 to July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (July 14, 1891).
Drawings by Herrera the Younger and a Follower, Jonathan Brown, 1975, S. 239, Abb. S. fig. 15a, Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 1
The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, with contributions by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Gabriele Finaldi, José Manuel Matilla u. a., 2014, S. 250, Abb., Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 160
Die Spanischen Handzeichnungen in der Hamburger Kunsthalle zu Hamburg, August Liebmann Mayer, 1918, S. 115, Abb.-Nr.