6812B
Saint Melchior
Saint Melchior
- Artist
- José Andrés Gastón y Balbuena
- Title
- Saint Melchior
- Date
- 1762
- Medium
- Chapter Letter on p. 148 of an autograph plainchant choral book calligraphed and illuminated by the artist in 1762.
- Location
- Inventory Number 10-12517, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, México.
- Photo Source
- INAH Website
- Correspondence Credit
- Almerindo Ojeda
- Note
- In his Iconografía del Arte Colonial (Santos), Schenone identifies the black magus as Balthasar (or rather Baltasar). Yet, a young-aged black magus bearing franckincense is identified here as Melchior by the inscription S. Melch. under his right arm.
- Item
- 6812B
- Correspondences
- Archive: 6812A/6812B
- Archive: 6812A/6812B
- Archive: 6812A/6812B
