Eugenio Cajés

Saint Raymond Nonnatus Being Nourished by the Angels

Saint Raymond Nonnatus (Spanish: San Ramón Nonato)was a saint from Catalonia in Spain (1204–1240). His surname (Latin: Nonnatus, “not born”) refers to his birth by Caesarean section (his mother died during childbirth).

He is the patron saint of childbirth, midwives, children, pregnant women and priests who want to protect the secrecy of confession.

Eugenio Cajés

Saint Joachim and Saint Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (c.1605)

Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

Eugenio Cajés

The Fall of the Angels (1605)

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Eugenio Cajés

Triumph of the Cross (c. 1613-34)

The steep perspective of the cross and the suggestion of heaven’s spatial infinity indicate that Eugenio Cajés probably made this square drawing as a preparatory study for a ceiling painting, probably in a chapel dedicated to the cross. In his late work, Cajés characteristically employed these graceful figures, these rhythmically flowing forms, and this chiaroscuro effect in brush and wash. His convincing illusionism in rendering the cross required extensive knowledge of perspective, which he may have gained from his study of Italian architecture.

[via The J. Paul Getty Museum]

Eugenio Cajés

The Annunciation

ca. 1620 - Preparatory Drawing

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Eugenio Cajés

The Death of Adonis

Preparatory Drawing · Museo del Prado, Madrid

Eugenio Cajés

Martyrdom of a Saint

Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques

Eugenio Cajés

The Presentation of the Virgin Mary

Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques

Spanish School · 17th century

Formerly attributed to Eugenio Cajés

Study of an antique male head

The Courtauld Gallery, London

Spanish School · 17th century

Formerly attributed to Eugenio Cajés

Study of a Right Foot

The Courtauld Gallery, London