A Mexican Retablo and Ex-Voto

the first is 19th century, oil on tin, depicting the Virgin Mary and inscribed "N.S. De la Cueva Santa / Especial Abogada para una buena / Confesion," mounted and framed under glass (Frame dimensions 19 3/8 x 15 3/8 in.) (minor edge wear to tin, not examined out of the frame); the second is 20th century, oil on tin, inscribed "Maria Lemus / Te doy gracias por haberme hecho el milagro / de savarme a mi hijo de una caida / de este arbol / Doy fe" (I thank you for having performed the miracle of saving my son from a fall from this tree, I attest), mounted and framed under glass (Frame dimensions 19 1/4 x 15 in.) (minor spots of rusting, three punched holes to top center of tin, not examined out of the frame).
From the Collection of the late Keith Stanley, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Duke University, North Carolina
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