"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 box of marbles More about Bluteau and additional

More about Bluteau and additional images of his work here

Hand-engraved silver title banner

8 1/4" x 6 3/8" and in good condition

I couldn't resist this--these--found at an antiques shop in Lancaster County

which are just over 1 inch

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 box of marbles More about Bluteau and additionalThis is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the