SOLD 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin: St. Jerome with Lion and Skull Australian very finely done

very finely done

The bar upon which they hang measures 2" across

that long spiral out front is like the rolled tongue of a butterfly

as I think it took a pretty interesting person to make such an interesting piece

texturally

SOLD 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin: St. Jerome with Lion and Skull Australian very finely doneI'm forever on the hunt for 19th c. Spanish colonial retablo paintings, which everyone else seems to be too as prices on them get higher and higher. I was very happy to find this one, of St. Jerome in his old age, with skull and cross to his left and fabulous little yellow lion to his right, looking quite a bit like Casper the ghost but in lion form! With plenty of wear and some surface rusting, which make the painting appear all the more like a