# San José y el Cristo Niño

- By: José Campeche y Jordán (born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809)
- Date: ca. 1794
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 37 x 28 1/2 in. (94.0 x 72.4 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=35436)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/76c53454e44e4d83dd0e6981a0541dc5.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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)