SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR SPANISH COLONIAL OIL, ST. ISIDORE

Spanish Colonial oil on canvas of San Isidro Labrador (Saint Isidore the Laborer), patron saint of farmers, shown as a bearded gentleman farmer with his goad and encircled by naive vignettes of his miracles — angels driving the ox-plows, the gushing spring, a kneeling donor and scenes of village life in the costumbrista spirit of romanticized rural labor; Andean (Bolivian, or in the Peruvian / Cuzco-school tradition), 19th century

Reference: compare the closely related San Isidro Labrador (Joaquin Castañon, 1866) in the San Antonio Museum of Art, which likewise depicts the saint as a 19th-century gentleman farmer in an Andean setting

Approx. Dimensions: 36.5" H x 31.5" W (painting); Frame 58" H x 42" W

Artist or Maker: Unknown; Spanish Colonial / Andean school, 19th century

Provenance: From a New York Collector

Condition: Small recent puncture / hole to the canvas, as shown in the photographs.

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