Mexican Retablo Depicting N.S. De La Cueva Santa, Our Lady of the Sacred Cave
Product ID: P1800-014
$2,895.00
About this piece
A gilded little shrine, and a Madonna in the middle of it.
Mexican painters made this retablo of Our Lady of the Sacred Cave, in pigment on tin, in the 19th century. Retablos were commonly painted for home altars and as devotional images. Here the Virgin appears veiled in white and blue, her hands at her chest, with a halo of golden rays and a pair of small angels above. The painted tin sits inside a pedimented wooden frame with twisting side columns, gilded and worn to patches of dark and gold.
About 14 inches tall. Gold leaf at its most tired, and all the better for it.
