Saint Christopher
A rare attributed work by Melchor Pérez Holguín, Bolivia's own great colonial painter.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Melchor Pérez Holguín
- Origin & date
- Bolivia, ca. 1710–20
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — The American Wing (gift of James Kung Wei Li, in memory of Ambassador and Mme Ti-Tsun Li, 2018)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
Melchor Pérez Holguín (active in Potosí, Bolivia, c. 1660s–1732) was to the Bolivian side of the viceroyalty roughly what Quispe Tito was to Cusco — a named, individually documented master whose surviving, attributed work is exceptional in a field defined mostly by anonymous workshop production. This Saint Christopher, shown fording a river with the Christ Child on his shoulders per the saint's legend, is a rare chance to see his specific hand.
Holguín worked in the same viceroyalty, the same visual moment, and often the same devotional subjects as the Cusco masters — but from Potosí, the silver-mining city whose wealth funded the whole colonial economy, giving his work a slightly different regional inflection.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — The American Wing (gift of James Kung Wei Li, in memory of Ambassador and Mme Ti-Tsun Li, 2018)’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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