Saint Agnes
Anonymous painter, colonial Peru
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyAgnes — a Roman martyr venerated since antiquity, traditionally shown young and holding a lamb (a pun on her name and the Latin "agnus") — is one of the older European saint cults the colonial Andes inherited wholesale, painted by anonymous Peruvian workshops using the same print sources and iconographic conventions as any Iberian devotional image. The painting now belongs to the Hispanic Society of America in New York, a research collection built specifically around the art of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America — a fitting institutional home for a devotional object that is itself a document of that exact cultural transmission.
- Maker
- Anonymous painter, colonial Peru
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Hispanic Society of America, New York, via Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Hispanic Society of America, New York, via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00175
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 13 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 11 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 8 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 6 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 266 x 330 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 22, lights 211 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 27.14
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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