Title

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Author

Beer, Cornelius

Utrecht, ca 1585 - Madrid, 1651

Typology

School

Century

Dimensions

Technique

Support

Inscriptions

Lower center, signed: “C. D. Beer. fe”.

Observations

(Gen. 22, 6-14) 

This series of paintings by Cornelis de Beer was commissioned for a private setting, with a moralising intent. (Muñoz Clares 1990, pp. 22, 28).

The paintings appear in the inventory of the estate of Diego de Pareja Enríquez, a councillor of Lorca who died in 1652. His widow, Doña Manuela Rojas, later married Juan Pérez de Meca. 

In 1658, Manuela Rojas and Juan Pérez de Meca applied for patronage of the Chapel of San José in the collegiate church of San Patricio, bequeathing the paintings to this site in Pérez de Meca´s will (1670). The paintings remained in the Pérez de Meca family for another century. They were handed over to the collegiate church in 1761, and ten years later, The Sacrifice of Isaac. 

Bibliography

• J. L. Barrio Moya (2000): "Las pinturas de Cornelio de Beer en la Iglesia de San Patricio de Lorca y algunas noticias sobre el artista", Murgetana, Revista de la Real Academia de Alfonso X el Sabio, nº 102, Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia.
• M. Muñoz Clares (1990): "La bienaventuranza del justo. Una genealogía de San José en cinco lienzos de Cornelio de Beer", Murgetana, nº 80, Academia Alfonso X El Sabio, Murcia, p. 24, il. [s.n.].
• J. Espín Rael (1959): "De las pinturas de Cornelio de Beer en la colegial de S. Patricio de Lorca", Murgetana, nº 12, Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia, pp. 10-12, il. [s.n.].

Locations

• Collection Pérez de Meca, Lorca (Murcia) (Spain)
• 1771: Former Collegiate of St Patrick, Lorca (Murcia) (Spain)