Spanish or colonial school, XVIII century. Divine... Lot 204

Spanish or colonial school, XVIII century. Divine Shepherdess of Souls with Child. Spanish or colonial school, XVIII century. Divine Shepherdess of Souls with Child. Oil on canvas. The Virgin appears seated with a hat, in her right hand she holds the staff typical of her invocation and protects one of the sheep while with the right hand she holds the Child Jesus. This one sits on the left knee, the painting is completed with the sheep marked with the anagram of Mary. The devotion of the Virgin as a shepherdess comes from Seville. In the year 1700, Fray Isidoro de Sevilla received a vision in one of his dreams in which the Virgin Mary appeared to him in a country landscape, surrounded by trees and sheep, dressed in a purple tunic, a blue mantilla and carrying in her hand a shepherd's crook, moved by the beauty of the image, he ordered Alonso Miguel de Tovar, a painter of the Sevillian pictorial school, to paint the image he had in his dream. An interesting phenomenon is the imagographic metamorphosis of the Divine Shepherdess, both in the Iberian Peninsula and in Spanish America. Sometimes the vision of the Capuchin is partially altered, as in the case of our work, by including the Infant Jesus in the Virgin's lap. Re-engraved. 55 x 46 cm.