DepartmentHispano

Santa Rita de Casis

NameRetablo

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Place madeNEW MEXICO, United States, Southwest, North America

MediumTempera on yeso ground over hand-planed pine panel cut in crude lunette at top.

Dimensions21.5 cm long overall, 11 cm wide, 1 cm thick

Credit LineGift of the Historical Society of New Mexico

Object numberA5.1952.75

ProvenanceSame source as A5.1952.55: Purchased with a lot or retablos form Julius Gans, June 1952 [See A5.1952.55 record]

DescriptionFigure is usual habit with usual attributes, white background, framed with red border. At bottom, originally had small triangles of red with smal black dots, between border and figure, not in corners. Roughly brushed dashes ray from center of top lunette. Paint and yeso flaked and cracked all over, exposing traces of an earlier painting beneath. Small forms like flowers or leaves between Rita's head and hand, part of older painting, suggest that this first retablo was of a different saint.