Simon de Leal Leon
Illustration — Triumph of Saint Norbert, The Hermitage Museum Simón de León Leal (1610–1687) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Madrid to Diego de León Leal (originally from the Principality of Catalonia) and Juana de Durán (according to Palomino). He was a pupil of Pedro de Las Cuevas.
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Illustration — Triumph of Saint Norbert, The Hermitage Museum Simón de León Leal (1610–1687) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Madrid to Diego de León Leal (originally from the Principality of Catalonia) and Juana de Durán (according to Palomino). He was a pupil of Pedro de Las Cuevas.
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Born at Madrid in 1623, died in Madrid in 1700.
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- 1.Según Antonio Palomino murió en Madrid en 1687 a la edad de 77 años, lo que llevaría la fecha de su nacimiento a 1610, pero su testamento se fecha el 8 de octubre de 1700 y en los libros de la parroquia de San Marcos se registra su fallecimiento el 12 de octubre de ese año: Aterido, «Cronobiografías», p. 174.
- 2.Palomino, p. 426.
- 3.Palomino, p. 425.
- 4.Aterido, «Cronobiografías», p. 174.
- 5.Aterido, «Cronobiografías», p. 174.
- 6.En el Museo del Ermitage, inventario número 2539, se atribuye a León Leal un Triunfo de san Norberto de menor tamaño que el sugerido por Palomino (171 x 121 cm) y sin la presencia de la Inmaculada, cuyo lugar ocupa un ostensorio.
- 7.Ceán t. III, pp. 13-15.
- 8.Hermoso Cuesta, Miguel, «Francisco Rizi en la Biblioteca Histórica Complutense “Marqués de Valdecilla”», Pecia Complutense, 2012, año 9, nº 16, pp. 96-114, señala que arruinado el templo tras la desamortización de Mendizábal, se preservó el altar mayor para ser empleado en la proyectada capilla del cementerio de la Sacramental de San Ginés y San Luis, desmantelado a su vez en 1884, sin que queden noticias del destino de sus obras de arte, p. 100.
- 9.Agulló, pp. 213 y 215.
- 10.En la carta cuarta de su Viage de España, tomo I, pp. 156-157, escribe: «Palomino habla de esta pintura, haciendo autor de ella a Carlos Marati; y de otro quadro que hay enfrente a Simón León Leal, que no sé qual sea esta pintura (...) Hay otros dos quadros en el cuerpo de la Iglesia, que el uno representa a Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis, y el otro a S. Hermenegildo con S. Fernando. No hay de ellos otra memoria sino que se hicieron en Roma. Así lo creo, y que son de la escuela de Jacinto Brandi». Así se ha repetido hasta su restitución a Simón León por Juan Nicolau Castro que advirtió la presencia de la firma.
- 11.Nicolau Castro, pp. 425-430.
- 12.El ángel de la Guarda , La pintura. Otros fondos del ministerio.
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