VIRGIN MARY OR SAINT (TO DRESS UP). WOOD, METAL. SPANISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY.

Saint or Virgin to dress. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century. It has faults. The female figure stands (with her right leg forward) on a small polygonal base. Made of partially polychrome wood, note that the feet (which show through the “dress”), the hands up to the wrists, and the head and neck are worked. The skull is prepared to receive hairpieces or clothing. As for clothing carvings, these were very common during the Spanish Baroque, and there may be cases of works in which the unseen part was barely roughed out and others in which everything is carved, with many intermediate points (see the present case). . Remember the San Antonio Abad by Benito Silveira made in the second half of the 18th century that is in the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, a San Francisco de Paula from the 18th century in the Museo del Carmen de Maipú (Santiago de Chile), etc.

· Size: 33x25x87 cms