The Visitation

This handsome canvas has in the past been something of enigma due to the way in which it presents this episode from the Gospels. The publication of a drawing which was undoubtedly done in preparation for this painting allows us to affirm that it si indeed the Visitation and that the scene has suffered mutilation on the righ-hand side, depriving it of the presence os Joseph and the donkey, who are clearly defined in the above-mentioned drawing. The elegated human forms, particularly that of St. Elizabeth, fit well with those in other works painted by Pereda around 1650.