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Spanish collection
The following 12 Spanish artworks are a selection from the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met):
Pyxis
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 950–975
- Elephant ivory
- Overall: 4 5/8 x 4 1/8 in (11.7 x 10.5 cm)
- Credits: The Cloisters Collection, 1970.
10th century
Camel
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1129–1134
- Fresco transferred to canvas
- Overall: 97 x 53 1/2 in (246.4 x 135.9 cm)
- Credits: The Cloisters Collection, 1961.
- Notes: First half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)
12th century
The Vision of Saint John
by El Greco, circa 1608–1614
- Oil on canvas
- 87 1/2 x 76 in (222.3 x 193 cm); with added strips 88 1/2 x 78 1/2 in (224.8 x 199.4 cm, top truncated)
- Credits: Rogers Fund, 1956.
17th century
The Young Virgin
by Francisco de Zurbarán, circa 1632–1633
- Oil on canvas
- 46 x 37 in (116.8 x 94 cm)
- Credits: Fletcher Fund, 1927.
17th century
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
by José de Ribera, 1648
- Oil on canvas
- 82 1/2 x 60 3/4 in (209.6 x 154.3 cm)
- Credits: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1934.
17th century
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
by Diego Velázquez, 1650
- Oil on canvas
- 32 x 27 1/2 in (81.3 x 69.9 cm)
- Credits: Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971.
17th century
Virgin and Child
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, circa 1670
- Oil on canvas
- 65 1/4 x 43 in (165.7 x 109.2 cm)
- Credits: Rogers Fund, 1943.
- Notes: 1670s
17th century
Mater Dolorosa
by Pedro de Mena, circa 1674–1685
- Partial-gilt polychrome wood
- Sculpture only: 24 13/16 × 23 1/8 × 15 in (63 × 58.7 × 38.1 cm); on black base: 26 × 24 3/4 × 16 1/2 in, 44.2 lb (66 × 62.9 × 41.9 cm, 20 kg)
- Credits: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Mary Trumbull Adams Fund, and gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2014.
17th century
The Entombment of Christ
by Luisa Roldán (La Roldana), circa 1700–1701
- Polychrome terracotta
- Overall: 19 1/2 × 26 × 17 in (49.5 × 66 × 43.2 cm)
- Credits: Purchase, several members of The Chairman’s Council Gifts, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, private donors; The Bernard and Audrey Aronson Charitable Trust Gift, in memory of her beloved husband, Bernard Aronson; Anonymous Gift and Louis V. Bell Fund, 2016.
18th century
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, circa 1787–1788
- Oil on canvas
- 50 x 40 in (127 x 101.6 cm)
- Credits: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949.
18th century
Self-portrait
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, circa 1796
- Brush and point of brush, carbon black ink, on laid paper
- Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 9/16 in (15 × 9.1 cm)
- Credits: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935.
18th century
Seated Giant
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, circa 1818
- Burnished aquatint, scaper, roulette, lavis (along the top of the landscape and within the landscape)
- Plate: 11 3/16 × 8 3/16 in (28.4 × 20.8 cm); Framed: 21 3/4 × 19 in (55.2 × 48.3 cm)
- Credits: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935.
19th century