Novo-Hispanic school, ca. 1733

Novo-Hispanic school, ca. 1733.
Possibly SALVADOR DE SALAZAR.
"St. Joseph, Mary and Child".
Oil on canvas.
Relined.
Signed and dated.
Frame of the nineteenth century, with faults.
Measurements: 30 x 56 cm; 48 x 74 cm (frame).

Except for the halos that border the heads of the members of the Holy Family, the painting shows us a domestic scene of daily character, with St. Joseph working in his carpentry workshop, and the Child Jesus and Mary seated in wooden chairs, conversing.

During the Spanish colonial domination, a mainly religious painting was developed in New Spain, aimed at Christianizing the indigenous peoples. The local painters were modeled on Spanish works, which they followed literally in terms of types and iconography. The most frequent models were the harquebusier angels and the triangular virgins, however, in the early years of the 19th century, already in times of independence and political opening of some of the colonies, several artists began to represent a new model of painting with its own identity.