Reading the Fate of the Christ Child, 1667

  • Josefa de Óbidos, Spanish, 1630 - 1684

Oil on copper

  • Overall: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 inches (23 × 29 cm)

Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

2020.15

On View

  • European, Level 2, South

Department

European Painting

May 31 and June 1 2019 ((Auktionshaus Plückbaum, Bonn, Germany, Auktion 34, lot 1135)

2019 (Jaime Eguiguren, Arts & Antiques, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2020-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Caetano, Joaquim Oliveira. Reading the Fate of the Christ Child: New Masterpiece by Josefa de Ayala (1630-1684). Jaime Eguiguren Art and Antiques Gallery, 2019, pp. 1-74; pp. 12-15 (ill.); p. 6 (ill.); p. 8 (ill.); pp. 10-11 (ill.); pp. 31-36 (ill.); pp. 58-61 (ill.); pp. 63-69 (ill.); p. 71; pp. 72-73 (ill.); https://jaimeeguiguren.com/usr/library/documents/main/cat_josefa-lr.pdf. Accessed on: May 23, 2023. "Detroit Institute of Arts adds works to Native American collection, new works by women artists." Artdaily. https://artdaily.cc/news/131545/Detroit-Institute-of-Arts-adds-works-to-Native-American-collection--new-works-by-women-artists#.YYQ0NWDMKUm. (Accessed on November 4, 2021). Ripollés, Carmen. Forjando una identidad: autoimagen y conciencia artística en los primeros grabados de Josefa de Óbidos. Anuario Del Departamento De Historia Y Teoría Del Arte, no. 35 (2023): pp. 65-88; [https://doi.org/10.15366/anuario2023.35.003]. Den Elsen, Catherine Hall-Van. Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia. New York, 2024, p. 42.

Josefa de Óbidos, Reading the Fate of the Christ Child, 1667, oil on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 2020.15.