Antique 18thC Spanish Colonial Icon Painting Retablo St. Camillus & Christ 1760 Decorative Arts the drawers with brass lock

the drawers with brass lock escutcheons & bail handles

the artist painted numerous small genre scenes in the style of the Bamboccianti

The set having a blue ground with finely hand-painted panels of Neoclassical scenes of maidens seated in floral settings and accompanied with cherubs

ochre and earthen greens that looked like they were pulled from the very soil he painted

Antique 18thC Spanish Colonial Icon Painting Retablo St. Camillus & Christ 1760 Decorative Arts the drawers with brass lockAntique 18th Century Spanish Colonial South American retablo, features Saint Camillus De Lellis (San Camilo), Patron Saint of The Sick, Peru, Cusco, circa 1760. This devotional retablo is sensitively painted on copper and housed in a gilt wood frame. The painting depicts a scene of a recumbent figure, presumably Christ, attended by Saint Camillus De Lellis. Christ is wearing white linens, holding a white lit candle to depict the divine light. There is