# St. Anthony with the Christ Child

- Date: 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.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=633)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ee2d0b706ae8075581c72908027094bf.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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)