cuzco-school-18th-century-our-lady-of-the-rosary
Lot 389
Cuzco School (18th century), Our Lady of the Rosary
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, unframed, retaining remnants of a label to stretcher.

Stretcher size 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.

Private Collection, North Carolina

This devotional painting features the Virgin Mary under a crown of stars and wearing the imperial crown. She is flanked by symbols of her immaculacy, including the spotless mirror, lilies, roses, and heavenly portal. The artist has painted two indigenous patrons kneeling at her feet.

Canvas lifting from stretcher at lower left with associated tears and areas of loss to canvas; several patches to the verso; drying cracks and craquelure; some loss to pigments; minimal retouch visible under UV light.