Lucy is traditionally shown holding a small dish or plate bearing her own eyes — the instrument of her martyrdom in the legend and, ever after, her identifying attribute, since she became the patron saint invoked against blindness. That grim, specific iconography traveled essentially unchanged from Sicily into the colonial Andes, carried by the same imported print sources that supplied most Cusco School saint portraits. Compared to the tradition's great gold-leaf Virgins, a single-saint devotional portrait like this is modest in scale and ambition — likely made for a private home altar rather than a church, one of thousands of similar small saint portraits that furnished colonial Andean domestic life. A reminder that this tradition's output was not only spectacle — it was also the ordinary furniture of everyday belief.

Maker: Cusco School (attributed)
Date: 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-00167

As chosen: 8 x 10 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	8 x 10 in
Outside size	9.6 x 11.6 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 10 in	170	Good	Trimmed 7.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
11 x 14 in	123 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 16 in	113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
16 x 20 in	85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
18 x 24 in	75 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
24 x 30 in	56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
30 x 40 in	45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 1,363 x 1,835 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 43, lights 160 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 5.2