In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Painted in New Mexico, this small religious scene, or retablo, was meant for private devotion in a chapel or home. Retablos typically depict saints, angels, or the Virgin Mary. The New Mexican painters who specialized in these subjects were called santeros . To develop their iconographies, santeros looked to a variety of printed materials, including woodcuts, pamphlets, and illustrated Bibles. Here Saint Acacius is shown being crucified in a crown of thorns, flanked by two solders bearing lances.
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José Benito Ortega — Archangel Saint Raphael (San Raphael)
José Aragon — Saint Acacius (San Acacio)
José Raphael Aragon — Archangel Saint Raphael (San Raphael)
Pedro Fresquis — Nuestra Señora de los Lagos
José Aragon — Saint Raymond Nonnatus (San Ramon Nonato)
José Benito Ortega — Saint Barbara (Santa Barbara)
José Raphael Aragon — Saint Michael (San Miguel)
José Aragon — Saint James (Santiago)
Quill Pen Santero — Saint Michael (San Miguel)
José Raphael Aragon — Saint Lawrence (San Lorenzo)
Anonymous, German, 15th century — The Last Judgment (Schr. 6
José Raphael Aragon — Saint Jerome (San Geronimo)