Three Antique Spanish Colonial Retablos
Item Details
A group of three early 19th Century Spanish Colonial retablo images on board. One has an image of Mary with her hands clasped. The second, which is split into two pieces, shows Mary inside an aura with floral borders but much of the detail is indistinct. The third is the right half of a broken panel showing a figure, possibly Jesus, holding a cross in his right hand with drapes on the right side. The rustic paintings are executed in black, red blue and yellow rough hewn board. 1938.0526, 0538 & 0532
Provenance
Collected in the late 19th and early 20th century and donated to a Private Midwestern Institution in 1938
Sold to enhance and preserve the Institution’s mission-relevant Collections
Condition
- All are very dark with losses of paint.
- one painting has split cleanly into two parts through the middle.
- another painting is a fragment of a split painting.
Dimensions
group
Item #
17COL077-021
