Bidspirit auction | Saint Anthony with the Child,

Saint Anthony with the Child, Spanish School, 19th Century - Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 71 x 51 cm; 89 x 69 cm. Devotional scene of Saint Anthony kneeling and embracing the Christ Child, surrounded by cherubs amidst clouds and an idealized landscape. The composition is notable for the tenderness of the gesture, the warm luminosity of the celestial scene, and the contrast between the saint's dark habit and the Child's radiant light. A religious work from the 19th-century Spanish school, linked to Baroque models of great spiritual and decorative sensitivity.