St. Ignatius of Loyola

Camón Aznar mentions that this picture was painted for Ignacio Ezcurra, viceroy of the Río de la Plata, and that according to its auction record at Christie's it belonged to Encarnación Ezcurra and later to Gregoria Rosas Ezcurra, daughters of the former. In fact, we know that Juan Ignacio de Ezcurra Ayerra (Pamplona, 1750 - Buenos Aires, 1827) moved to Argentina in the 1770s and that he carried out different mercantile and other activities there, but not as viceroy. Encarnación was his fifth daughter (Buenos Aires, 1795 - 1838), married to the Argentine military and politician Juan Manuel Ortiz de Rozas (or Rosas). Gregoria Ortiz de Rozas (or Rosas), sister of Juan Manuel, married Felipe Ignacio de Ezcurra Arguibal, eldest son of Juan Ignacio. Consequently, Encarnación and Gregoria were sisters-in-law twice, but not sisters.

The painting of Saint Ignatius belonged to the Ezcurra family (maybe until the 1970s), so it has traditionally been assumed that it was Juan Ignatius who commissioned it from Goya in honor of his patron saint. Sold at Christie's, London, 1976; private collection, Madrid, 1979; private collection, Zaragoza; for sale at the Ansorena gallery, Madrid, 2019, with no successful buyer; on loan to the Museo Goya Ibercaja, Zaragoza, March 2021.