En Vino Veritas

NamePainting

Maker Juanito Jimenez (born 1943)

CultureHispano

Date2012

Place madeSanta Fe, New Mexico, United States, North America

MediumWood (pine), gesso, natural pigments, micaceous clay, matte varnish

Dimensions11 × 18 × 9/16 in. (28 × 45.7 × 1.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2012.39.1

Object numberFA.2012.39.1

DescriptionPainting on rectangular wood panel with large, deeply "petalled" lunette atop depicts a bulky dancing man in a dark blue cassock holding a bottle of wine in his upraised proper left hand. He stands within a desert landscape with a church in the proper left background, mountains to his right. With him are four blue winged angels, one dressed in a mariachi outfit strumming a guitar, the other three in white aprons over long black gowns, one drinking from a bottle, one with a glass raised in proper left hand, and one inserting a palo into a horno. Three white doves fly overhead. The edge and lunette are painted brown.