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Latin America, Mexico, ca. 1877 CE. A lovely ex-voto painted on heavy gauge tin depicting a woman dressed in green, kneeling in prayer beside her bed to the Virgin of the Rosary and Child depicted above in a celestial cloud. The details are wonderful; notice the chamber pot beneath the hem of her bedspread. The text below translates as follows, "Ysabel Bernal was having headaches for seven months and wasn't finding any comfort, so she asked for help from the Lady of the Rosary of the town of talpa who cured her and made her well again. 1877" Size: 7" L x 10.125" W (17.8 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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  • Condition: Slight bending and normal surface wear commensurate with age. Text is very legible.

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