Spanish Colonial Retablo Featuring Archangel Raphael and Four Donors
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Spanish Colonial Retablo Featuring Archangel Raphael and Four Donors
Oil on tin, 19th c. Mexican
This painting features the Archangel Raphael wearing a yellow tunic and a red mantle as he stands on top of and among slylised clouds. He is generally known as a healer and is often depicted carrying a staff (seen here in his right hand) and a fish (seen here in his left hand). The fish attribute comes from a story recorded in the Book of Tobit (Tobias): after having been expelled from Israel, Raphael had been sent by the Lord to heal Tobit of his blindness so he told Tobias to catch a fish; Raphael then used its gallbladder to heal Tobit's eyes and to drive away Asmodeus (king of demons) by burning its heart and liver so that his daughter-in-law Sarah could return home safely. Raphael is considered the patron saint of healers, medical workers and matchmakers. Four donors flank his image: two men kneel on the left and two women on the right.
ca. 25.5cm x 35cm
Oil on tin, 19th c. Mexican
This painting features the Archangel Raphael wearing a yellow tunic and a red mantle as he stands on top of and among slylised clouds. He is generally known as a healer and is often depicted carrying a staff (seen here in his right hand) and a fish (seen here in his left hand). The fish attribute comes from a story recorded in the Book of Tobit (Tobias): after having been expelled from Israel, Raphael had been sent by the Lord to heal Tobit of his blindness so he told Tobias to catch a fish; Raphael then used its gallbladder to heal Tobit's eyes and to drive away Asmodeus (king of demons) by burning its heart and liver so that his daughter-in-law Sarah could return home safely. Raphael is considered the patron saint of healers, medical workers and matchmakers. Four donors flank his image: two men kneel on the left and two women on the right.
ca. 25.5cm x 35cm
Condition
Good. Some rust and stratched off paint. Each of the four corners are worn away, and the bottom right and top right ones are turned in a bit.
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Spanish Colonial Retablo Featuring Archangel Raphael and Four Donors
Estimate $300 - $500
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