34 x 24 1/2 inches; framed size 35 x 26 1/2 inches

The delicacy of the figures and the light-colored palette that the painter used in this work bring it securely into the 18^th-century Ecuadoran circle of artists like Manuel de Samaniego and Bernardo Rodríguez. It was characteristic of these painters to use what seems like multiple sources of light. The foreground figures are highlighted, and the composition also seems to be lit from behind, casting everything with a gentle, golden glow. They were accomplished at rendering figures with contrapposto (see the twist in the body of the full-length angel to the left of the Dolorosa), detailed still-life (see the instruments of Christ’s Passion at the foot of the cross), drapery, and landscape. This was truly a Golden Age in Ecuadoran Colonial painting.