Portable Altar with Virgin de Guadalupe

NameRetablo; Shrine; Portable Altar

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1940

Place madeTarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia, South America

Mediumwood, paint, stone, cotton, metal

DimensionsOverall: 16 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (40.9575 x 24.13 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Museum Purchase with funds from Nancy Reynolds and Gloria List, A.2007.43.1v

Object numberA.2007.43.1V

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionRetablo with painted image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on a rock within a wooden cabinet on legs with hinged and arched doors. Inside, a silver arch over the painted rock image is decorated with colored foil flowers secured to bundles of twigs with threa. Painted rock has goats and one bull adhered to top. In front are a sheep and bull.