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San José y el Cristo Niño
José Campeche y Jordán (born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809)
ca. 1794
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 37 x 28 1/2 in. (94.0 x 72.4 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
- 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
According to the Gospels, Joseph was the husband of the Virgin Mary and the foster-father of Jesus. In Puerto Rico, St. Joseph is often invoked by and for the dying and he is the patron saint of several Puerto Rican communities, including the island's western region of Lares. (Yvonne Lange, "Santos: The Household Wooden Saints of Puerto Rico," PhD diss., 1975)
