This is a rarer devotional type: not a portrait of a specific miracle-working statue, but an allegory of Mary's soul itself — a theological subject (her Immaculate purity, imagined as a luminous inner figure) translated into the same gold-leaf, crowned-Virgin visual vocabulary used for the pilgrimage icons. It shows how flexible the Cusco School's toolkit had become by the 18th century: the brocateado technique, the crown, the aureole of gold rays — all developed for portraying specific named Virgins — get redeployed here for a purely doctrinal, non-narrative subject. Style had become a language for holiness in general, not just for particular shrines. A quieter, more introspective piece than the militia angels or the great pilgrimage Virgins — worth sitting with.

Maker: Cusco School (anonymous)
Date: 18th century
Medium of the original: Oil and gold 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-00151

As chosen: 16 x 20 in, art print, classic frame
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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	400	Excellent	Trimmed 5.5%
11 x 14 in	285	Excellent	Trimmed 7.2%
16 x 20 in	200	Excellent	Trimmed 5.5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
24 x 30 in	133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,385 x 4,000 px, srgb, sRGB.icc

Tone

Darks 0, lights 118 of 255; 0% clipped light, 10.9% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

37.12

Notes

Shadows clip on 11% 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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