19th C. Mexican Painted Tin Ex-Voto to Santa Rosa
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Latin America, Mexico, ca. 1884 CE. A sweet ex-voto on heavy gauge tin depicting a young man, holding a candle and kneeling in prayer to Santa Rosa depicted in the upper left corner with golden rays emanating from her crown of roses and sitting upon a green maguey cactus. The text below generally translates, "In 1884, the three Garcias children were sick, the boy Santiago was sick with the measles and the girl Tomasa was sick with a respiratory illness, and the youngest boy with croup - all the same year. Their parents invoked Santa Rosa who brought about their cures in a few days. For this reason they give her this retablo." Size: 7.125" L x 10.125" W (18.1 cm x 25.7 cm)
Ex-votos are little story paintings that tell us so much about the values of Mexican peoples and their visual culture. These votive paintings were hung in a church or placed adjacent to a santo in order to celebrate and give thanks for the recovery of the donor from an illness or dangerous situation. In essence, ex-votos represent the spiritual or physical gains received by the donor. These paintings include hand painted passages that relate the details of the cure or the rescue. Typically, however, this commentary is replete with regional dialect and somewhat tricky to translate. Nevertheless, familiarity with the Spanish language allows one to understand the gist of these wonderful narrative paintings.
Provenance: ex private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection
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Ex-votos are little story paintings that tell us so much about the values of Mexican peoples and their visual culture. These votive paintings were hung in a church or placed adjacent to a santo in order to celebrate and give thanks for the recovery of the donor from an illness or dangerous situation. In essence, ex-votos represent the spiritual or physical gains received by the donor. These paintings include hand painted passages that relate the details of the cure or the rescue. Typically, however, this commentary is replete with regional dialect and somewhat tricky to translate. Nevertheless, familiarity with the Spanish language allows one to understand the gist of these wonderful narrative paintings.
Provenance: ex private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
#126622
Condition
A few perforations at upper and lower peripheries and middle of the piece. Expected surface wear. Text is legible for the most part though there is a thin layer of beige paint over the leftmost and rightmost sections of the written narrative.
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19th C. Mexican Painted Tin Ex-Voto to Santa Rosa
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