St Anthony with Child by Antonio de Pereda y Salgado

Antonio de Pereda y Salgado (Valladolid, 1611 - Madrid, 1678) was a Spanish Baroque painter, trained in tenebrist naturalism and Venetian color. He was especially apt to objectively capture the pictorial qualities of objects and persons, treated independently, or incorporated into the compositional paintings, mainly of religious matters, that form the bulk of their production. The painting is signed at the right bottom. There is a smaller version in Gothenburg, and another painting of the same subject from 1665 in the Hispanic Society in New York. An interesting part of the painting is the angel represented from the back on the right side. it shows a resemblance to Murillo's representations.