Mateo Cerezo

Ecce Homo, 1650

Juan Martín Cabezalero: Assumption of Mary, circa 1650

Mateo Cerezo (19 April 1637 in Burgos – 29 June 1666 in Madrid) was a Baroque Spanish painter.

Cerezo was born in Burgos to his father Mateo Cerezo the Elder. In 1654 he moved to Madrid and studied with Juan Carreño de Miranda and possibly with Antonio de Pereda.

He died young at age forty years, and much of his work is at the Prado Museum in Madrid, as well as at the Museo de Burgos.

Works

• Ecce Homo, 1650, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
• Assumption of Mary (Asunción de María), c. 1650, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
• Desposorios místicos de Santa Catalina, Palencia Cathedral.
• The Assumption of Our Lady (La Asunción de Nuestra Señora), San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián
• Magdalena penitente, [1661], Rijksmuseum, Ámsterdam.
• Saint Augustine (San Agustín), 1663.
• Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, 1663, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
• Magdalena penitente, 1664, Czernin Gallery, Vienna.
• Boda mística de Santa Catalina. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
• Bodegón de cocina. Museo del Prado, Madrid
• Una pobre alma ante el tribunal, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
• Cristo tras la flagelación, Sacristía de la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Briones (La Rioja)
• John the Baptist, Kassel
• Saint Jerome, Czernin Gallery, Vienna

Bibliography

• E. Tormo Mateo Cerezo, Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología (Spanish Art and Archaeological Archives). 3. 1927, S. 113 ff., 245 ff.
• A. Palomino El Museo Pictórico y escala óptic. Madrid, 1724.
• A. Palomino, An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects, 1724, first English translation, 1739, p. 89
• J. Ruiz Carcedo Maestros del arte burgalés (Masters of Burgalese Art). Burgos, 1997, p. 193-203