Nun’s Badge with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conceptionca. 1710
Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez painted this in about 1710, aged about 38. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez painted this in about 1710, aged about 38. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Oil paint
- Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.
Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez
Mexican, 1667–1734
Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez came from a dynasty of painters in Mexico City and worked alongside his brother Juan, the two of them leading painting in New Spain around 1700. He painted altarpieces and devotional images for churches and convents, as well as portraits, in a warm and increasingly theatrical Baroque manner. Late in life he was ordained a priest. He also painted nun’s badges, small devotional images worn on the habit by nuns of certain orders.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2021.268
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- The American Wing
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
