Mexico
18th century
Oil on copper
Height 9 3/4" Width 6 3/4"; with frame Height 12 3/4" Width 9 3/4"
Unknown artist
Provenance: J. Frederick Caine, St Petersburg, FL
This Spanish Colonial devotional painting depicts Christ carrying the cross, his head lowered beneath the crown of thorns and encircled by a rayed gold halo. Worked in oil on a copper plate, the small panel uses the smooth metal support to hold fine detail and a deep, enameled surface, a technique favored for portable religious images in the eighteenth century. The subject belongs to the penitential imagery that the Church used to encourage devotion among the faithful in New Spain.
Painters in the Americas drew closely on engravings and paintings imported from Europe, especially the penitential subjects of Spain and Italy. Country churches of modest means embellished such holy images with gilding where they could, seen here in the halo and the carved giltwood frame. The panel survives as an example of the intimate devotional art produced for chapels and private worship across colonial Mexico.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
Mexico
18th century
Oil on copper
Height 9 3/4" Width 6 3/4"; with frame Height 12 3/4" Width 9 3/4"
Unknown artist
Provenance: J. Frederick Caine, St Petersburg, FL
This Spanish Colonial devotional painting depicts Christ carrying the cross, his head lowered beneath the crown of thorns and encircled by a rayed gold halo. Worked in oil on a copper plate, the small panel uses the smooth metal support to hold fine detail and a deep, enameled surface, a technique favored for portable religious images in the eighteenth century. The subject belongs to the penitential imagery that the Church used to encourage devotion among the faithful in New Spain.
Painters in the Americas drew closely on engravings and paintings imported from Europe, especially the penitential subjects of Spain and Italy. Country churches of modest means embellished such holy images with gilding where they could, seen here in the halo and the carved giltwood frame. The panel survives as an example of the intimate devotional art produced for chapels and private worship across colonial Mexico.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
