Velazquez and Seville: The recovered Immaculate from the Deán López Cepero

The Immaculate recently acquired by the Foundation Focus-Abengoa involved experts into one of the most passionate dialectic confrontations when the painting went to auction at Sotheby's London in 1994. For Jonathan Brown, it was a young Velázquez painting, against the proposition of Sánchez Pérez, who considered that it was painted by Alonso Cano in his training period of Seville. After the analysis of the canvas, the macro and radiographic studies, the work is now attributed to the young painter from Seville, after leaving the workshop of his teacher, Francisco Pacheco.