Bidspirit auction | Mexican or Spanish Colonial Retablo

Mexican or Spanish Colonial Retablo of the Eucharistic Man of Sorrows on Tin - An antique devotional painting, identified in the market as a retablo, likely of Mexican or Spanish Colonial origin. The artwork is executed in oil or pigment on a thin metal panel, likely tin or zinc. The iconography depicts Christ kneeling as the Eucharistic Man of Sorrows (El Varón Eucarístico de Dolores or La Vendimia Mística). Christ, crowned with thorns and clad in a loincloth, bleeds from the stigmata into a chalice resting on a red altar, symbolizing the Eucharist and the Mystical Winepress. The base is surrounded by seven lambs (Agnus Dei). Grapevines arc above the figure. The style is folk or popular. A visible inscription in Cyrillic characters appears on the side of the altar reading ”ВЄРСЄОМ” (VERSOM). The panel features a suspension loop at the top and a mounting hole near the bottom edge.