An engraved portrait of Ignatius of Loyola, made by the French printmaker Nicolas Bazin in 1703 after earlier portraits by Cornelius Vermeulen and Nicolas de Largillierre. It follows the standard convention of Ignatius as a black-cassocked founder holding a book, the same register in which the Society of Jesus he founded circulated his image. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 57.639.1, given by Charles K. Wilkinson in 1957.
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Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightSourced to the subject's own accountIgnatius was canonized in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, and the Society of Jesus he founded thereafter circulated a standardized authorized portrait type of him for devotional use across Catholic Europe, cassocked, holding an open book, gazing upward in inspired attention. This 1703 engraving, made more than eighty years after the canonization and at third remove from Largillierre's original painting by way of Vermeulen's intervening print, shows how long that authorized type stayed in circulation through successive reproductions. 2 Classification
Object TypeSourced to the subject's own accountPrint (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 2 Medium (class) Physical Form
MediumEngraving, Nicolas Bazin, 1703, Metropolitan Museum of Art 57.639.1 1 Connections
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Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Depicts
The engraving's directly named subject per the museum's own title and its own Portrait tag, following the founder-with-book iconography the corroborating Wikipedia record independently describes for him.
Source St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Ignatius of Loyola (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2. Ignatius of Loyola (Wikipedia)
Wikipedialead, on Ignatius founding the Society of Jesus
Ignatius of Loyola (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; c. 23 October 1491-31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.
catalogue record, medium/object-type description
An engraved portrait of Ignatius of Loyola, made by the French printmaker Nicolas Bazin in 1703 after earlier portraits by Cornelius Vermeulen and Nicolas de Largillierre.
Depicts: Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola is conventionally portrayed in black clerical dress, often holding a book or the Jesuit monogram, the founder-portrait convention that circulated across the Society of Jesus he established.
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