Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena San Juan Puerto Rico
Date:
Ca. 1778-1780
Notes:
Barrenechea, Francisco J., et al., "Campeche, Oller, Rodon: Tres Siglos de Pintura Puertorriquena/Three Centuries of Puerto Rican Painting," San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1992.
"Jose Campeche, 1751-1809," San Juan de Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1971.
Barrenechea, Francisco J., et al., "Campeche, Oller, Rodon: Tres Siglos de Pintura Puertorriquena," San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1992, pg. 44.
(Lower right:) J. Campeche Pt. signed
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Summary:
Religious painting in which a group of four slaves and a nun kneel before and present as offering baskets of flowers to St. Anne, Mary, Jesus, St. Joseph, and St. Joachim who sit in the throne of heaven represented by a dense mass of clouds. Jesus, who sits in the center of the composition, holds a cross with his proper left hand. Above Jesus, God the Father and the Holy Spirit look at the group.
