Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2011–June 2012
Infant Jesus
about 1640–50
José de Arce
Overall: 57 cm (22 7/16 in.)
Painted wood
Classification: Sculpture
Culture: Spanish
Accession number: 2011.1637
Provenance/Ownership History: Possibly from the Convent of the Holy Spirit, Seville [see note 1]. Before 1999, Andrés Moro, Seville. By 2007, Antonio Plata, Seville. 2010, acquired in Seville by Matthiesen Gallery, London; 2011, sold by Matthiesen to the MFA. (Accession date: September 21, 2011) NOTES: [1] José Luis Romero Torres, unpublished essay, 2011.
John Lowell Gardner Fund, Marshall H. Gould Fund, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Fund, and Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund