Juan Bautista de Amiens, contract for a painting including a vihuela

Contract between painter Juan Bautista (de Amiens) and the Hospital de San Pedro in Carmona for a retablo painting of the virgin enthroned, dressed in white, accompanied by two angels with vihuela.

Sepan todos cuantos esta carta vieren, como yo, Juan Bautista Flamenco, pintor, vecino que soy de la villa de Marchena, y al presente, en esta de Carmona, me obligo de hacer, para el Hospital de San Pedro, de esta dicha villa, un retablo, con las condiciones que siguen:
Primeramente, es condición que el tablero de en medio, se ha de pintar una imagen de Nuestra Señora, sentada en una silla, vestida de blanco… y las orillas del manto y las vestiduras de bocas y mangas, han de ser doradas… Acompañada la imagen con dos ángeles, uno con un laúd y el otro con una vihuela”.

The document is quoted by Martínez from miracab1999, p. 142, by Martínez [martinez2015], p. 49. Mira Caballos and de la Villa Nogales [miracab1999] identify the painter as Juan Bautista de Amiens, a painter who had lived for many years in Marchena, and was living in Carmona at the time the document was written. This painting appears not to have survived. The Chapel of the Hospital was restored in 2011 and is used as a lecture venue by the Universidad de Carmona in Seville.