Melchor Pérez Holguín (active in Potosí, Bolivia, c. 1660s–1732) was to the Bolivian side of the viceroyalty roughly what Quispe Tito was to Cusco — a named, individually documented master whose surviving, attributed work is exceptional in a field defined mostly by anonymous workshop production. This Saint Christopher, shown fording a river with the Christ Child on his shoulders per the saint's legend, is a rare chance to see his specific hand. Holguín worked in the same viceroyalty, the same visual moment, and often the same devotional subjects as the Cusco masters — but from Potosí, the silver-mining city whose wealth funded the whole colonial economy, giving his work a slightly different regional inflection.

Maker: Melchor Pérez Holguín
Date: ca. 1710–20
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-00165

As chosen: 16 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 24 in
Outside size	17.6 x 25.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	306	Excellent	Trimmed 8.1%
12 x 18 in	204	Excellent	Trimmed 8.1%
16 x 24 in	153	Good	Trimmed 8.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
20 x 30 in	122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 23% crop
24 x 36 in	102 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
40 x 60 in	61 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,451 x 4,000 px, srgb, sRGB.icc

Tone

Darks 4, lights 91 of 255; 0% clipped light, 4.9% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

9.41

Notes

Shadows clip on 5% 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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