Spanish school: Christ with crown of thorns, oil on copper, first half of the 17th C.

41,6 x 31,7 cm

At the bottom a rather difficult to read text: by reciting an Our Father and an Ave Maria, we gain twelve thousand years of forgiveness granted by (…) Saint Peter and thirty pontiffs. Burnanos (the Bernanos family name is found in Moselle, where it has been present since 1550 in Ancy-sur-Moselle. The tradition wants that it is a Spanish family immigrated in Lorraine, but the family name seems rather unknown in Spain).