# Assumption of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VALDÉS LEAL, Juan de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The dramatic side of seventeenth-century Spanish painting is well represented by Juan de Valdés Leal. He tended to give expression to the pessimism of the Baroque, which, for all his religious idealism, he was sometimes unable to suppress and which inspired theatrical visions. Impetuous, dynamic, a bold colorist who experimented with the principles of defocusing, Valdés Leal was a forerunner of Romanticism. He painted his Assumption of the Virgin now in the National Gallery, Washington in 1659, it is among his more decidedly Baroque works. ## Related artworks - [Ascension of Elijah]() - [Carrying the Cross]() - [Ecce Homo]() - [Finis Gloriae Mundi]() - [Head of a Woman]() - [In Ictu Oculi]() - [Miracle of St Ildefonsus]() - [Monument to St Ferdinand]() - [St Jerome]() - [The Sacrifice of Isaac]() - [Virgin of the Immaculate Conception with Sts Andrew and John the Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()