Lot 119A
**Originally Listed at $800**
Latin America, Mexico, ca. 19th century CE. A beautiful oil on canvas painting depicting the Virgin and Child amid billowing clouds flanked by two floating angels donning cascading scarlet wraps and presenting the Madonna and Baby Jesus with wreaths of peace and lilies (the Virgin's attribute symbolizing her purity). This composition is known as Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also Our Lady of Perpetual Succour) - a Roman Catholic title based upon a 15th-century Byzantine icon that has been in Rome since 1499 and is enshrined in the church of Sant'Alfonso di Liguori, where worshippers pray the official Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help text weekly. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, this composition is known as the Virgin of the Passion or Theotokos of the Passion, since the archangels Michael and Gabriel bear the instruments of the Passion. Size: painting measures ~ 28.5" L x 22" W (72.4 cm x 55.9 cm); framed and matted 36" L x 28.5" W (91.4 cm x 72.4 cm)
This depiction shows the Virgin half-length, wearing her traditional colors, the jewel-tone red robe under the rich blue cloak that is initialed with her ciphers and lined with gold and white lace, supporting the Child in her arms, and surrounded by radiant rays of light and stars. The Virgin wears a golden bejeweled crown and supports a similarly crowned Christ Child whose nude body is covered by a transparent robe. Scenes of the maternal Virgin imbued with tender human emotion like this example were introduced during the Renaissance, when artists, including Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli, departed from the more formal, stiffly rendered depictions of the Medieval period. It is a touching scene, and this rendition displays a fine painting technique and a nicely balanced composition. Set in a custom natural linen and gold hued mount within a carved and painted wooden frame.
Provenance: Ex-Private Houston, Texas collection
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#117180
- Condition: Repairs to canvas as shown but overall excellent
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