3623B

Portrait of the Virgin Mary (Virgen de Habiyú)

Artist: J.M. Habiyú
Title: Portrait of the Virgin Mary (Virgen de Habiyú)
Date: 17th century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Complejo Museográfico Enrique Udaondo, City of Luján, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Formerly in the Elisa Peña Collection. Formerly in the Enrique Peña Collection. Formerly in the Manuel Ricardo Trelles Collection.
Photo Source: www.viajeros.com
Note: According to an autograph inscription on the back of the painting, this work was produced by J.M. Habiyú in the Guaraní Jesuit Reduction of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Itapúa (today city of Posadas, Province of Misiones, Argentina) in the year 1618. Doubts have been raised about this date, though, given the late lettering style of the inscription and the depiction of the Sacred Heart of Mary, whose feast was celebrated for the first time in 1648.
Item: 3623B