Discovering Viceregal Latin American Treasures

Enconchado, oil and mother of-pearl, inlay on panel.

Enconchado, oil and mother of-pearl, inlay on panel.

Unidentified artist
Viceroyalty of Peru (Peru), 17th century
Oil on canvas
Inscription above his head “PAX ET A IVSTITIA DEI”
Inscription on the plinth “NOLO MORTE PECCATORIS SED VI MAGIS COVERTATVR ET VIVAT, EZEC, 33.”

Unidentified artist
Viceroyalty of Peru (Peru), 17th century
Oil on canvas
Inscription above his head “BENIGNITAS ET MANSVTVDODI”
Inscription of the plinth “ETENIM DOMN 9 DABIT BENIGNITATEM Y ET TERRA NOSTRA DABIT FRVCTUM SVUM PSA. 84”

Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
Viceroyalty of Peru (Peru), 17th century
Oil on canvas

Anonymous artist, Cuzco School.
18th century
Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
Cuzco School, 18th century
Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
Cuzco(Peru), c. 1720–1750
Oil on canvas

Cuzco (Peru), last third of the 17th century
Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
Cuzco (Peru), first half of the 18th century
Oil on canvas

Viceroyalty of Peru (Peru)
Oil on canvas
Inscription “A devocion del YLmo Señor Dr. Dn. Juan Manuel
Moscoco y Peralta, Natural de la Ciudad de Arequipa Dionissimo
Obispo de la Ciudad de Cordoba.”

Cuzco, Peru, 18th century.
Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas
Inscription: R. de N Sa del Cortijo de la Villa de Soto de los Cameros Obpdo. de Calaorra Cop.de su original â devocion de Dn Antonio de Benito y Vallejo Natural de dicha Villa por Josef Villanueva â 16 de Enero de 1737

Unidentified artist
Upper Peru (Bolivia), 18th century
Oil and gold on brass

Unidentified artist
Chairapata, Potosí (Bolivia), 1813
Oil on canvas
Inscription “Verdadero retrato de Nuestra Señora. de Guadalupe de Chairapata, a devoción de Su Párroco el D. D. Manuel de Lossada, y Amezaga Año de 1813.”

Anonymous artist
Titicaca, Peru
First half of the 18th century
Oil on canvas stuck to wooden panel

Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
Guatemala, 18th century
Oil on canvas

Oil on Copper

Our Lady of Valvanera
c. 1700
Oil on canvas
Signed “D. Francisco de Morales fessi”
Inscription “Bolvio el rosto XP por no ver ū sacrile”

Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
New Spain (Mexico), first half of the 18th century
Oil on canvas

Oil on copper

Oil on canvas

Feather work mosaic, (Emplumado), paper and gold leaf on copper.

Dated “Año. de 1782”
Oil on canvas

Mexico, 17th18th century
Oil on canvas

Unidentified artist
Lake Titicaca workshop, c. 1730
Oil and gold on copper

Unidentified artist
Lake Titicaca workshop, c. 1730
Oil and gold on copper

Unidentified artist
Lake Titicaca workshop, c. 1730
Oil and gold on copper

Ecuador
Polychrome graffito gilt wood

Last third of the 18th century
Carved, gilt, polychromed wood

Unidentified artist
Mexico, Late 17th century
Carved, gilt and polychromed wood, gilt bronze

Spanish-Filipino
Polychrome Ivory

Unidentified artist
Hispano-Philippine, 17th century
Ivory and wood

Unidentified artist
Queretaro (Mexico), Late 17th–early 18th century
Polychromed terracotta

Unidentified artist
Guatemala, late 18th–early 19th century
Carved and polychromed wood, estofado and gilt silver

Mexico, Tonalá, 1710
Earthenware
Molded, shaped and burnished with slip (engobe); single firing. Polychrome wooden lid

Mexico, Tonalá, late 17th–early 18th century
Earthenware
Molded, shaped, painted with slip (engobe) and burnished; single firing

Oaxaca, Mexico.
Wood from Lemon, Granadillo and Lign-Aloes trees "Zulaque" vegetable dyes, iron metalwork.

Viceroyalty of Peru, Cuzco.
Carved wood, gilt and polychrome, covered with gold leaf.

Cuzco, Peru.
Paintings: Diego Quispe Tito's workshop (San Sebastián del Cuzco, 1621 – 1687)
Oil on wooden panel, gilt carved wood and iron fittings

Mexico
Wood, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and silver locks.

Mexico
Wood, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and silver locks.

Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico)
Paintings: Oil and tempera on wooden panel, mother-of-pearl, gold and silver;
Box: Jacaranda and cedar wood, bone and iron

Vice-Regency of Peru.
Cedar and fruit tree wood.
Clasp and keyhole, handle and hinges made of hammered wrought iron.

Anonymous artist
Viceroyalty of New Granada, Audiencia of Quito (current Ecuador).
Polychrome wood, with metal lock.

Cuzco School
Wooden chest with iron fittings, handles, and lock. Lid of the chest lined in studded leather.

Upper Peru
Cedar wood, painted in oil with purpurin gilding. Iron hinges, lock and key.

Bolivia, possibly Moxos of Chiquitos
Cast and chased wood and iron

New Spain (Mexico), 18th century
Carved mahogany, red damask, gold leaf decoration

Unknown artist
Ayacucho (Peru), late 17th century
Carved Huamanga stone, encaustic polychrome, gold leaf estofado
Inscriptions: upper left side “DÑS MIHI A DIVTOR”, left side “SANCTUS FERDINANDUS HISPANIAE REXSARA CENORV MATER RORA CRELIGIO”

Unknown artist
Ayacucho (Peru), 17th century
Carved Huamanga stone, encaustic polychrome, gold leaf estofado

Pasto, Colombia.
Wood, Pasto varnish and iron mounts.

Colombia.
Barniz de pasto

Santiago de Guatemala

Gilt silver, partially in its color; turned, cast, embossed and engraved.
Marks on the foot flange: Pilgrim venera inscribed within a square profile frame, and three-pointed vegetable crown.

Mexico City. Before August 8, 1608.
Mark: Male head in left profile over o/M in between crowned columns (repeated twice), TO/RES (with horizontal separating bar) and an F crested with a crown (several times in the small bells). Engraved.
Silve-gilt; turned, melted, embossed, engraved and chiseled.

Vice-Regency of Peru

Gilt silver; cast, turned, engraved, finely punched with dots and slightly raised in relief.
State of preservation: excellent.
Mark repeated twice at the base of the cylindrical body: royal crown inside a pearled circle.

Anonymous artist
Viceroyalty of Peru, mid-18th century
Inscription: MACICAO

Cast, hammered and carved silver.

Viceroyalty of Peru (Peru), 17th century
Silver in own color, cast, beaten and chased

Peru, early 19th century.
Initials of former owner: J. CH
Cast and chased silver, carved wood and leather.