COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Molleno, Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1815-1845)
Creator role:
creator
Creator note:
also known as Chili painter
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1815-1830 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora del Carmen
Title:
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Description:
Crowned female figure wearing ornately decorated garments holding a brown scapular with a cross on it in her right hand. Her left arm holds a young male, also wearing a crown and holding a brown scapular with a cross on it.
Note Fr. Steele:
"It's a fine example of an early Molleno; cf. Will Wroth, Christian Images in Hispanic New Mexico, p. 96, for a very good parallel; Larry Frank has one very much like this, even including the split down the right side."|"A 5.4 x 1.1 cm block is missing from the Niño's robe."|"NB: a third x a quarter of a vara (compare with Raf A San Acacio which is a quarter vara x 3/16 vara)"
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"I removed two slats where they had been fastened on the back, one on the top and one on the bottom, with three nails each, and I mended the break with airplane glue. Sealed with Soluvar September 1986."
Exhibition note:
Abdington, VA: William King Regional Art Center, Nov 1996-Jan 1997|Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, Feb-June 2007|Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009
Provenance note:
"Collected in Villanueva (La Cuesta) area, Pecos River."
Acquisition note:
1984, Jeffrey Adams Antiques, Santa Fe.
Accession number:
RU0091
Measurements display:
28.7 x 19.6 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
July 18
Patronage:
Patronage: Against all dangers, especially hell; in the hour of death (in New Mexico a brick of adobe was often brought to a dying member of the Carmelite Third Order and placed on his or her chest to ease -- or maybe just shorten -- the final agony); for the souls in purgatory.
Note:
The orders of Carmelites, both monks and nuns, spread devotion to the brown scapular; an author wrote of "Our Lady's triple promise to assist us in life and death and to bring us as soon as possible to the gate of Heaven" (Lynch, Your Brown Scapular[1950], p. 40). Mary is usually dressed in red and often holds a scapular and the Niño. She often wears a crown, Christ sometimes does. There are often souls in purgatory at the bottom.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED