Valvanera is a monastery Virgin from La Rioja, Spain — one of many Iberian devotional images that colonial patrons specifically requested Cusco workshops reproduce, carrying a piece of home iconography into the new viceroyalty. That two-way traffic (European models painted in an increasingly Andean technique) is the whole engine of the Cusco School. By the time a Spanish shrine Virgin like this one had passed through a Cusco workshop, she had usually picked up brocateado gold leaf, a distinctively Andean textile sensibility in the drapery, and — often — a rounder, more Andean facial type in the surrounding angels or donor figures, even while the central composition stayed faithful to the European original. This is a large, altar-scaled canvas — meant to anchor a chapel, not sit on a side table.

Maker: Cusco School (anonymous)
Date: c. 1770–80
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-00150

As chosen: 20 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	20 x 16 in
Outside size	21.6 x 17.6 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
10 x 8 in	348	Excellent	Trimmed 4.6%
14 x 11 in	249	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
20 x 16 in	174	Good	Trimmed 4.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop
16 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop
24 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop
30 x 24 in	116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop
40 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
48 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,486 x 2,922 px, srgb, sRGB.icc

Tone

Darks 27, lights 104 of 255; 0% clipped light, 1.1% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

37.55

Notes

Narrow tonal range (34 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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