Two Antique Mexican Tin Retablos

Both late 19th century and finely painted, the first depicting the Madonna and Christ Child with crowns, the second depicting a guardian angel watching over a sleeping child (likely after a painting by Melchior Paul von Deschwanden), both presented in matching later antique gilt frames.

DOA 22.5 x 17.25 in. (each)

From the Collection of Michael Joyce, Greensboro, NC

Crazing to surface of each; yellowing to varnish and some surface grime; slight buckling to tin sheets; each with minor scattered paint flakes revealing tin below.