San Jacinto Yaguachi
Artist:
Unknown
Culture: Ecuadorian
Date: 19th century
Place made:Ecuador
Medium: Oil on tin
Dimensions:
21 x 15 in. (53.3 x 38.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter P. Cecere
Object number: 99.21.1
Provenance: Ecuador
Exhibition History: Pasión popular!: Spanish and Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection (San Antonio Museum of Art), April 06, 2013–August 18, 2013.
Published References
Marion Oettinger, Pasión popular!: Spanish and Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection (San Antonio Museum of Art, 2013), plate 3.4.
Label Text
This fascinating tin painting depicts the miraculous rescue of
a sacred image of the Virgin Mary by Saint Jacinto in the
lowland Ecuadorian town of Yaguache. Now the indigenous
balsa or raft and the local and much feared alligator in the
foreground. (Dr. Marion Oettinger, 1998)
a sacred image of the Virgin Mary by Saint Jacinto in the
lowland Ecuadorian town of Yaguache. Now the indigenous
balsa or raft and the local and much feared alligator in the
foreground. (Dr. Marion Oettinger, 1998)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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