Mariano VÁSQUEZ, known as Il Carlin Dolce (active in Mexico between 1770 and c. 1815) La Divina Pastora Oil on copper Signed, located and dated 'Mariannus Vasquez pinxt, Mexici a 1778.' lower right (Restorations) The Divine Shepherdess, oil on copper, signed and dated, by M. Vasquez, called Il Carlin Dolce 27.16 x 22.44 in. 69 x 57 cm Provenance: Private collection in the South of France Bibliography: related : Ilona Katzpev, Painted in Mexico 1700 - 1790, Pinxit Mexici, cat. exp., Mexico, Los Angeles, New York, 2017-2018, Munich, London, New York, p.65, p.74 note 64, p.75, notes 84,85,86. Erika Brenda Gonzalez Leon, La colección de arte de la congregación de San Felipe Neri en San Miguel el grande, doctoral thesis consulted online, Universidad Nacional autonoma de Mexico, April 2019, p.250-251. The artist is mentioned as a teacher at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City (founded in 1781), and as having been a pupil of Miguel Cabrera (1695-1768). The iconography of the Virgin as a shepherdess, wearing a straw hat and looking after her flock, invented in Seville in the circle of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), became very popular throughout Latin America in the 18th century. Here, our painter takes up the interpretation given by his master Miguel Cabrera, for example in his small copper in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (circa 1760, inv. M.2008.31). Mariano VÁSQUEZ, known as Il Carlin Dolce (Active in Mexico between 1770 - c. 1815) 69 x 57 cm The artist is mentioned as a teacher at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City (founded in 1781), and as having been a pupil of Miguel Cabrera (1695-1768). The iconography of the Virgin as a shepherdess, wearing a straw hat and looking after her flock, invented in Seville in the circle of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), became very popular throughout Latin America in the 18th century. Here, our painter takes up the interpretation given by his master Miguel Cabrera, for example in his small copper in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (circa 1760, inv. M.2008.31).