The Immaculate Conception
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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About this painting
The doctrine went where the king put it. Charles III founded the church at Aranjuez in 1767, his reign's first important building project, and seven altarpieces were commissioned that year from an Italian; the Immaculate Conception went left of the high altar, Saint Francis right.
The mirror is the doctrine itself: the surface a stain would show on, showing none. Palm, obelisk, crescent, twelve stars: the standard set, supplied to specification by a foreigner.
His last major commission. He died in Madrid in 1770; they hung a few years before the king found them old-fashioned and had them removed.
Sources: Museo del Prado, main collection page · Museo del Prado, 'easy-to-read' companion page · Courtauld Gallery, Collection Online
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 30,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.