Attributed to Basilio de Santa Cruz Pumacallao circa 1665 (1 - Lot 228

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Attributed to Basilio de Santa Cruz Pumacallao circa 1665 (1 - Lot 228
Attributed to Basilio de Santa Cruz Pumacallao circa 1665 (1635-1710) Tobias and the Archangel Raphael Oil on canvas with gold highlights and brocateado decoration 156 x 114 cm (restorations) Provenance Jochim Jean Aberbach, New York, USA Sale Sotheby's, New York, USA, May 7, 1981 lot 27 Exhibitions Musée Lambinet, Versailles, September 17 to December 24, 2011, page 92 of the catalog Faste et ferveur d'Amérique latine. Le Mans, Baroque des Andes, Musée de Tessé (2010/2011) Castres, Andean Baroque, Musée Goya (2011) Sarrebourg, Baroque des Andes, Musée du Pays de Sarrebourg (2011) Montbrison, Musée d'Allard, Secret des couleurs de l'Europe aux Andes (2015), p.43 La Rochelle, Musée du Nouveau Monde, "De l'or, des anges et des roses" exhibition (2015.) Lyon, Musée d'art religieux de Fourvière, Andes celestes exhibition (2017), p.95 The iconography of this imposing canvas is dedicated to the episode of Tobit and the Angel, recounted in the apocryphal "Book of Tobit". Guided by the archangel Raphael, Tobias brings a fish whose entrails will be used to restore sight to his father Tobit, who was living in exile in Babylon. It is interesting to note that the painter of this composition, Basilio de Santa Cruz Pumacallao, illustrates the archangel towering over Tobit. Specialist Jean-Louis Augé points out that devotion to the seven Archangels developed in Spain in the 17th century and appeared in South American schools at the same time: in Peru, the Archangel Raphael was the patron saint of travelers and youth.
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