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St. Anthony with the Christ Child

ca. 1825-1840

Medium: water-based paint on wood panel
Classification: Paintings
Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (35.3 x 25.1 cm.)
Museum: Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Rights: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

About this work

St. Anthony was a member of the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church known for his aggressive attacks on heresies. During the Renaissance, however, a cult of devotion developed around the saint, and many artists offered a gentler, more sentimental image by presenting him as a protector of the infant Jesus. (Ron Tyler, ed., Posada’s Mexico, 1979)