COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José, Follower of (Colonial Spanish American santero)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1840-1860 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora del Refugio
Title:
Our Lady of Refuge
Title:
Nuestra Señora Refugio de Pecadores
Title:
Our Lady Refuge of Sinners
Description:
Portrait of a crowned female figure holding a small male clad in white in her right arm. She is shown at half-length in the center of the picture plane, with gestural marks in black and red at the bottom of the piece.
Note Fr. Steele:
"by School [I would call Follower] of Jose Aragon / Arroyo Hondo Santero."
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:
"under black light: most of Niño's arms and head; NSa's face & lower hair on our left side; left crown as we look at it; her red robe as we look at it and a thin line to left; some of left border--are all replacement ptg--Marie Romero Cash for Larry Frank."| ". . . great deal of restoration by anonymous hand and by Marie Romero Cash."|"Charlie Carrillo comments: 'Baby's face looks like Marie Cash work, and hands of both are Marie's . . . Extensive rework of body, gown, and cloak of the Virgin on the left side.' --I read this to Marie and she acquiesced as far as she could recall." Soluvar, 1988.
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, Feb-June 2007; Morrison, CO: The Fort, Tesoro Foundation Spanish Market, Sept 2007; Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1988, from W.S. Dutton - Rare Things, Santa Fe.
Accession number:
RU0121
Measurements display:
25 x 12 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora Refugio de Pecadores (Our Lady Refuge of Sinners)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
July 4
Patronage:
Patronage: For protection from sin, repentance of sin, both for self and others.
Note:
An Italian Jesuit devotion introduced into Mexico, especially into Zacatecas, during the eighteenth century. See Boyd, El Palacio57 (1950), 274-77. Mary is crowned, holds a scepter or a palm and the Niño, who may hold Mary's thumb. There are often roses and angels in the background, and frequently the letters or a monogram "MA." Mary is generally shown half-length, often with clouds at the bottom front.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED