Our Lady of Mercy, called "The Pilgrim of Quito"
The Virgin as an actual traveler — staff, cloak, and the road still in her feet.
- Work
- Oil and gold on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Origin & date
- Peru (Cuzco), c. 1730–40
- 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
Most Cusco School Virgins are enthroned, static, mountain-still. This one is different: she is shown as a pilgrim, mid-journey, an image type tied to the Mercedarian order's own traveling, ransoming mission (the Mercedarians existed originally to buy back Christian captives — mobility was core to their identity, and they extended that mobility to how they painted Mary).
The "Pilgrim of Quito" title ties this specific iconography to Quito, again showing how a single devotional "brand" — a particular miracle Virgin with a particular story — could be reproduced and exported across the viceroyalty by Cusco workshops far from her home city.
Look for how her gold-worked mantle still reads as processional dress, not a throne robe — motion translated into a static medium.
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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