San Antonio de Padua

NameRetablo

Artist Artist unrecorded

Place madeNEW MEXICO, United States, Southwest, North America

MediumEither sawmill board or uncomonly well planed piine. This allover uniformity of thickness would suggest sawmill lumber. Painted in oil directly on wood with yeso ground.

Dimensions29 to 29.4 cm x 19.1 to 19.5 cm, 1.9 to 2 cm thick

Credit LineGift of the Historical Society of New Mexico

Object numberA5.1952.67

DescriptionAlthough the medium and the thick dark red color scheme of this panel resemble A5.1952.65, it is my feeling that the two are at the opposite ends of the santero shcool in time; that A5.1952.65 is of the pre-New Mexican santero period and falls into same category of oils painted on native pine after 18th century baroque canvasses as others of that seriess, (CW-R-16, CDC-3R-2015), while A5.1952.67 is of the post-Lamy school, with the timidity and inhibited line, unfamiliar materials and techniques of a foreign (French, German, etc.,) influence. Of course the fact that several of these are on sawmill boards supports this theory. See head of female saint in num's habit reproduced in Antiques magazine, August, 1943, for another example of this late type.