Archangel Eliel with Harquebus
Cusco School (anonymous), c. 1690–1720
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 175 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.1% 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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This is an angel dressed as a Spanish grandee, carrying not a sword but a harquebus — the matchlock gun of the Habsburg infantry. Eliel is one of dozens of named archangels painted by Cusco workshops from apocryphal angel-lists that circulated through the colonial Andes, far beyond the four archangels scripture actually names. The costume is the point: plumed hat, lace collar, silk breeches, a gun held at parade rest. Nothing like it exists in European religious painting — arming an angel with contemporary Spanish weaponry and calling it heaven's militia is an Andean invention, likely reading imperial firepower back onto the side of God after generations of it being used against Andean people. Notice the stillness of the pose against the violence of the object in his hands — that tension is the whole painting.
- Maker
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Date
- c. 1690–1720
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Lima Art Museum
- Credit
- Lima Art Museum
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00135
| Picture | 8 x 12 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 9.6 x 13.6 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 12 in | 175 | Good | Trimmed 4.1% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 117 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 87 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,406 x 2,200 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 21, lights 208 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.4% vivid
- Sharpness
- 18.55
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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