Saint Barbara
Anonymous painter, last quarter 18th century
$191
Print check at 16 x 20 in: 200 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Barbara — martyred, in legend, by her own father, and ever after invoked against lightning, fire, and sudden death — was a widely venerated protector-saint across the Catholic world; this version comes from workshops in Quito, Ecuador, rather than Cusco proper, part of the same broader Andean colonial visual language exported across the viceroyalty's major cities. Her traditional attribute, a tower with three windows (a reference to the Trinity, from her legend), is a useful reminder that colonial saint portraits were built from a shared, internationally legible symbol system — a viewer anywhere in the Catholic world could identify her by the tower alone.
- Maker
- Anonymous painter
- Date
- last quarter 18th century
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — The American Wing
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — The American Wing
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00173
| Picture | 16 x 20 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 21.6 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 | 400 | Excellent | Trimmed 6% |
| 11 x 14 in | 285 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 16 x 20 in | 200 | Excellent | Trimmed 6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,406 x 4,000 px, srgb, sRGB.icc
- Tone
- Darks 0, lights 144 of 255; 0% clipped light, 10.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 16.2
- Notes
- Shadows clip on 10% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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