Delicate Small 1914 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin folk art cross feathering out

feathering out

Even better that it still include this wonderful little booklet suggesting an exhaustive array of plans for arranging the white painted houses

and then rounded on the bottom to sit nicely on whatever surface one might choose to display it

and hanging close

Delicate Small 1914 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin folk art cross feathering outI really love this delicacy of this small ex voto retablo, which I find quite elegant in its simplicity, and quite tender in its humility. By my translation, it seems the subject is one Epitacio Allala, whose right hand was wounded with a bullet on May 9, 1913, and thanks is being given to Our Lady of San Juan de los Logos for his miraculous healing. I know it is hard to feel scale in photos, but the painting is just 4 1 2" x 4", so our floating