Holy family with boy John Depiction of Mary as "Maria lactans" with bared breast, nursing the infant Jesus on her right arm, to her right in the background the youthful John the Baptist and left behind her Joseph, low pastose, religious genre painting with partial gilding, probably 18th century, unsigned, according to previous owner probably Cusco school Peru, wax-doubled, restored, somewhat in need of restoration, in a magnificent, approx. 20 cm wide, carved and openwork gilded frame with backed mirror glass (in need of restoration), folding dimensions approx. 57.5 x 47 cm.

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