"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 box of marbles 8 1/4" x 6 3/8"

8 1/4" x 6 3/8" and in good condition

Some wear to the box as evident

and a split in the wood on the front back foot

printed with every other page blank

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 box of marbles 8 1/4" x 6 3/8"This is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the