Our Lady of Mount Carmel Spanish Colonial Painting

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Spanish Colonial Painting

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Sold Date: 09/01/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

This is a wonderful old Spanish Colonial painting of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel with the baby Jesus in her arms. This canvass painting has been beautifully painted. Interestingly, a later painter added additional attributes to the painting including the crown, halo, and scapular. This adds a very folksy appearance to this painting. Later painting is sometimes found with older religious paintings with alterations being made to reflect the personal interest of the painter and/or religious order staff. The contemporary frame is of significant artistic value by itself. The frame measures 23" x 17 3/4". The painting measures approximately 15" x 9 3/4".

According to Wikipedia the "Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Simon at Cambridge, England, on Sunday, 16 June, 1251. In answer to his appeal for help for his oppressed order, she appeared to him with a scapular in her hand and said: "Take, beloved son, this scapular of thine order as a badge of my confraternity and for thee and all Carmelites a special sign of grace; whoever dies in this garment, will not suffer everlasting fire. It is the sign of salvation, a safeguard in dangers, a pledge of peace and of the covenant". This tradition appears in precise form for the first time in 1642, when the words of the Blessed Virgin were given in a circular of St. Simon Stock which he is said to have dictated to Peter Boyle, his secretary and confessor. It is widely believed that its general content remains a reliable pious tradition; in other words, that St. Simon Stock was given certain supernatural assurances:

The special protection of the Blessed Virgin for his whole order and for all those wearing the Carmelite habit Special aid, especially in the hour of death, to those wearing the habit in her honour throughout life, so that they should be preserved from hell. Indirectly, this promise is extended to all who from devotie and on to the Mother of God should wear her habit or badge and be thus as if it were affiliated to the Carmelite Order.Please check out my other quality religious items offered this week ."

This painting was originally purchased at a Mexico City antique flea market about 60 years ago. I am selling it because I have run out of wall space.