18th Century Polychrome Santos Figure

18th c. polychrome santos figure. Spanish. San Isidro. Wear commensurate with age. H. 14 1/4 inches.

It's the most important, lively and emblematic Madrid festival of the year. About San Isidro. San Isidro was canonized on May 15, 1622 for miraculously making water rise to rescue his son from a well, along with a handful of other wondrous deeds.

Provenance: Property of a prominent Dallas ethnographica collector