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Artworks
LEONARDO FLORES
The Virgin Consolatrix or Our Lady of Consolation (‘Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle’), c. 1680-1710Oil on canvas240 x 220 cm
94 1/2 x 86 5/8 in.Provenance
Originally part of a series of paintings in the Iglesia de la Asunción, Puerto Acosta, Bolivia (removed from the church by 1956);
Gaston Adler, São Paolo, Brazil;
Acquired from the above by Dr. Wolfgang Bernhardt, Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1976.Literature
J. de Mesa and T. Gisbert, Holguín y la pintura virreinal en Bolivia, La Paz 1956, p. 82, reproduced fig. 98.
