Saint Agnes
A young Roman martyr-saint, painted in colonial Peru and now held by the Hispanic Society of America.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Anonymous painter, colonial Peru
- Origin & date
- Peru, colonial period
- Held by
- Hispanic Society of America, New York, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
Agnes — a Roman martyr venerated since antiquity, traditionally shown young and holding a lamb (a pun on her name and the Latin "agnus") — is one of the older European saint cults the colonial Andes inherited wholesale, painted by anonymous Peruvian workshops using the same print sources and iconographic conventions as any Iberian devotional image.
The painting now belongs to the Hispanic Society of America in New York, a research collection built specifically around the art of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America — a fitting institutional home for a devotional object that is itself a document of that exact cultural transmission.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Hispanic Society of America, New York, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)’s open-access release.
- • Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. The heirloom frame is gold, under acrylic, with no mount.
- • Color-managed to the source scan.
- • Ships in 5–9 business days; satisfaction guarantee.
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