Our Lady of Guápulo
A pilgrimage Virgin from the hills above Quito, painted in full Cusco gold.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Peruvian (Cuzco) painter
- Origin & date
- 18th century
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — The American Wing (gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
Guápulo is a shrine town in the hills outside Quito, Ecuador — geographically outside the city of Cusco proper, but squarely inside the visual language the Cusco workshops exported across the viceroyalty. That reach is the story here: a "Cusco School" painting is defined by technique and iconography, not by where the canvas physically hung.
Like the Cocharcas Virgin, this is a portrait of a specific miracle-working statue rather than a generic Madonna — pilgrims who had seen the real image in Guápulo would have recognized her exact crown, her exact stance, her exact mantle pattern, reproduced here in oil and gold leaf for a private household altar or a distant chapel.
The mantle's geometric gold tooling is a signature of the mature Cusco style — repeating, almost textile-like patterning worked directly into wet paint.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — The American Wing (gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964)’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.
From the same collection
Our Lady of Cocharcas
The Virgin of a Peruvian mountain shrine, built up in real gold leaf.
Our Lady of Mercy, called "The Pilgrim of Quito"
The Virgin as an actual traveler — staff, cloak, and the road still in her feet.
Our Lady of Valvanera
A Spanish shrine Virgin, carried across the Atlantic and repainted in Andean gold.