Tempera and oil on wood
Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, California

A label provided by the Mission reads as follows:

"CHRIST CHILD AND SAINT ANTHONY

"This is a most unusual piece for a mission collection. It is done in the late Byzantine style which was virtually never used in colonial Mexico. It is probably of Southern Italian origin. It likely arrived here in the mid to lat 1800's, with a friar who served as missionary in the Holy Land and who travelled through Italy on his way to California."

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