Our Lady of Cocharcas is one of colonial Peru's great pilgrimage Virgins — a statue enshrined in the Andean town of Cocharcas that became, by the 18th century, a destination rivaling Copacabana. Paintings like this one were pilgrimage souvenirs and devotional objects at once: a portable version of a specific, located miracle-working image, complete with her own crown, her own feast day, her own following. The gold is not paint — it is brocateado, actual gold leaf worked into the pigment and tooled with fine lines to catch candlelight the way real brocade would. Cusco workshops perfected this technique, and it has no real equivalent in European Marian painting of the period; it turns the canvas into something closer to a reliquary than a picture. Notice how the gold patterning follows the fall of the fabric — this was drawn, not just applied.

Maker: Cusco School (anonymous)
Date: 1759
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-00147

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 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 10 in	365	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
8 x 12 in	333	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
11 x 14 in	266	Excellent	Trimmed 6.9%
12 x 16 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 2.4%
12 x 18 in	222	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
16 x 20 in	182	Good	Trimmed 8.5%
16 x 24 in	166	Good	Trimmed 8.9%
18 x 24 in	162	Good	Trimmed 2.4%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
20 x 30 in	133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	121 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,927 x 4,000 px, srgb, sRGB.icc

Tone

Darks 0, lights 110 of 255; 0% clipped light, 7.9% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

39.96

Notes

Shadows clip on 8% 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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