Angel Arcabucero
Cusco School (anonymous), 18th century
$123
Print check at 11 x 14 in: 157 dpi, good. Trimmed 2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Not every arquebusier angel that survives carries a legible inscription — ribbon lettering fades, canvases get trimmed or relined, and a name gets lost while the image itself endures. This is one of those: recognizably part of the militia format, plume and gun and all, but without the specific identity that would let it stand beside Eliel or Uriel by name. It belongs in the collection anyway — a reminder that this was a production genre before it was a gallery of individual portraits, and that anonymity was always more common in this tradition than the named exceptions suggest.
- Maker
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain); illustrated in a Christie's auction record
- Credit
- Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain); illustrated in a Christie's auction record
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00144
| Picture | 11 x 14 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 12.6 x 15.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 220 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.2% |
| 11 x 14 in | 157 | Good | Trimmed 2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,764 x 2,200 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 88, lights 206 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.96
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