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Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus Contemplating the Cross
Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez (1667–1734), New Spain, 1699
Oil on canvas
157.5 × 113.6 cm
Signed and dated 1699, this canvas joins paternal tenderness with an anticipation of Christ's Passion. Joseph supports the infant Jesus while three angels carry a large wooden cross through a...
Signed and dated 1699, this canvas joins paternal tenderness with an anticipation of Christ's Passion. Joseph supports the infant Jesus while three angels carry a large wooden cross through a luminous opening in the clouds. The intimate foreground and celestial apparition are linked by the child's gesture. Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez gives this devotional subject a carefully balanced setting, combining the physical closeness of the figures with the contemplative language of the New Spanish Baroque.