Quito School. Ecuador. 18th century. “Lactatio Bernardi or the lactation of Saint Bernard” Reverse glass painting. With an important mirror frame in the Venetian style adapted to the Ecuatorian aesthetic. 31 x 26 cm. Frame measurements: 64.5 x 43.5 cm. We compared our work with a painted glass piece reproduced in the catalogue Claras Luces. Arte colonial hispanoamericano. The painted glass, with an identical mirror frame, is almost certainly by the same eighteenth century Ecuadorian author. It depicts Saint Michael the Archangel and belongs to a private collection in Caracas. Lactatio Bernardi or the Lactation of Saint Bernard. These are the names by which the scene from the life of this saint is known in hagiography and art historiography, and its iconography is closely linked to the Virgo lactans (Our Lady of Milk). This anecdote is first recorded in one of the examples of the "Ci nous dit" (1313-1330), an anonymous work by a mendicant friar. It recounts that the bishop of Chalon visited Cîteaux, and the abbot ordered the young Bernard to preach. Filled with fear, the monk began to pray before an image of the Virgin until he fell asleep. In his dreams she appeared to him and granted him the gift of eloquence by placing in his mouth milk from her own breast. The story also appears in the Cancionero de Úbeda (1588), and a similar miracle is reflected earlier in the Cantigas de Santa María, where the resurrection of a monk is narrated after he receives milk from the Virgin herself in his mouth.