COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Quill Pen Santero (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1830-1840)
Date display:
1840 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora del Pueblito de Queretaro
Title:
Our Lady of the Suburb of Queretaro
Description:
A crowned Virgin wears a gown decorated with a botanical motif and an outstretched blue cape held on either lower edge by two cherubs. Our Lady rests on the central of three spheres held aloft by a Franciscan. The central image is framed by decorative zigzag and curvilinear ovals. Winged roses frame the image from the four corners of the retablo.
Note Fr. Steele:
"reused piece of wood; note pegs at top and bottom under the gesso."
Note Fr. Steele:
Pearce's typed comment on the item, c. 197: 'Nuestra Señora del Pueblecito. Purchased from the Las Vegas Collector who said the three balls at feet of figure represented villages of Bernalillo, Alameda, and Belen or Albuquerque! See Espinosa p. 38 pl 3: Our Lady of the Villages.' handwritten addition: 'Nuestra Señora de los Tres Pueblos. / Fr. Steele says that figure below spheres (worlds) is St. Francis. see tonsure. Steele says may be by Molleno [I was wrong]. See plate 31 Espinosa Queen of Heaven, La Reina del Cielo.'
Inscription:
Taped on back: a clipping from Albuquerque Journal, 13 Dec 1973, C-1: "Painting Virgin of El Pueblito, Patroness of Queretaro / by Cervantes, 1874, From Museum of International Folk Art."
Inscription:
Typed label pasted on back: "TL 82.1967 M of A"; written on same label: "La Señora Reina del Cielo / St. Francis holding spheres."
Inscription:
Label pasted on back, written in ink: "Possibly by Molleno. Could be Puebla, Mexico Nuestra Señora del Pueblo / Our Lady of the Village or Three Villages." Same label, written in pencil: "Also Our Lady Queen of Heaven."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint and pen on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
ink
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:
cleaned August 1994.
Exhibition note:
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
May, 1994, from Thomas Matthews (T.M.) Pearce Estate
Accession number:
RU0210
Measurements display:
36.4 x 21.7 cm
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED