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A NEW MEXICAN POLYCHROME WOOD RETABLO
of elongated form with tab at top, pierced through for suspension, depicting Nuestra Senora de Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel), crowned and standing, with the Christ Child in her right arm, holding a scapular in her left hand, wearing a cream robe over a brown habit and a placid expression, with two fine-feathered doves overhead, a tall foliated stem on each side, two large-scale sacred hearts, each with a cross-hatched and dotted band in the foreground, attributed to Jose Aragon (ca. 1820)
Dimensions: 19½ x 10 in. (49.5 x 25.4 cm.)
of elongated form with tab at top, pierced through for suspension, depicting Nuestra Senora de Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel), crowned and standing, with the Christ Child in her right arm, holding a scapular in her left hand, wearing a cream robe over a brown habit and a placid expression, with two fine-feathered doves overhead, a tall foliated stem on each side, two large-scale sacred hearts, each with a cross-hatched and dotted band in the foreground, attributed to Jose Aragon (ca. 1820)
Dimensions: 19½ x 10 in. (49.5 x 25.4 cm.)
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"The crowned and standing Virgin of Mount Carmel wears a cream-colored mantle over the brown habit of the Carmelite order, which claims descent from hermits who live on a mountain ridge on the northwest coast of Palestine. The small, brown scapular (badge of lay membership in an order or confraternity) held by the Christ Child or Mary or both of them identifies Mary as the Virgin of Mount Carmel, who is invoked for the release of the souls in purgatory," (Frank, 1992:305).