BALTAZAR GOMES FIGUEIRA (1604-1674) E JOSEFA DE ÓBIDOS (OU DE AYALA) (1630-1684) "Mês de Abril" (c. 1668) oil on canvas handwritten inscription "Pascoa de flores Abril/[...]/quando Alleluya amanhece/[...]; Obidos" restoration signed "Obidos" Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 111,5 x 176 cm Notes: It was part of the exhibitions:
"Exposição das pinturas de Josefa de Óbidos", National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, 1949, nº 14;
"Pintura Portuguesa do séc. XVII. Histórias, lendas, narrativas", National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, 2004, reproduced in the respective catalogue, pp. 124-125, no. 39;
"Josefa de Óbidos e a Invenção do Barroco Português", National Museum of Ancient Art, 2015, reproduced in the respective catalogue, p. 103, nº 29.

Although not included in the following two exhibitions, this work is also represented in the cataloueg of the Exhibition “Josefa de Óbidos e o tempo Barroco”, held at the King D. Luís I Painting Gallery, Ajuda National Palace, in 1991. Lisbon:Instituto Português do Património Cultural/TLP, p. 156, where the title “Mês de Agosto” is wrongly attributed, since the inscriptions had not yet been discovered, according to the text that accompanies the work in the catalogue of the exhibition "Pintura Portuguesa do séc. XVII. Histórias, lendas, narrativas", held at the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, 2004, being represented in the respective catalogue, pp. 124-125, no. 39; and in the exhibition catalogue “Josepha na Ogiva”. Óbidos: Galeria Ogiva, 1972, s.p, s.n, under the title “Doces e Flores”; and in CAETANO, Joaquim de Oliveira, "Reading the Fate of the Christ Child - New Masterpiece by Josefa de Ayala (1630-1684). Montevideo: Jaime Eguiguren Art & Antiques, pp. 54-55, fig. 16, where it is mentioned that in the "Páscoa e flores",literature of the time, which inspired the painting "A leitura da sina do Menino Jesus" (1667), figures refer to Jesus as "Páscoa e flores", the same expression that is in the caption.

It is also identifiable in a photograph of the interiors of the Palace of the Counts of Sabugosa, an archive of images of Mário Novais, currently in the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and in http://acasasenhorial.org/acs/index.php/pt/fontes-documentais/fotografia/277-palacio-dos-condes-de-sabugosa, accessed on November 9, 2022 at 2:55 pm."