Mexican Ex-Voto Paintings, Retablo and Reverse Painting on Glass, 19th Century

Item Details

Ex-voto (giving thanks to the holy child, and more), 1872
Oil painting on tin
Unsigned
Inscribed to lower center
Lot includes two ex-voto paintings, one retablo painting, and one reverse painting on glass.

Condition

- paint loss to the edges; abrasions, scratches, and areas of paint loss to the compositions; holes to the upper edges of tin paintings; some warping to the sheets; rust to the edges and to the verso of tin paintings; areas of loose framing metal to retablo; areas of paint loss to reverse glass painting; wear and finish loss to frame of reverse glass painting.

Dimensions

- measures the largest ex-voto painting.

• Item not examined outside of mounting

Item #

ITMGI02504