Research
Oil on panel. Each with molded frame with painted decoration, depicting a single full-length figure in elaborate formal dress set against a background of a mountainous landscape, the female figure with an attendant dog.
These pendant portraits are superb examples of secular viceregal Latin American portraiture. Latin America developed European-style artistic schools that evolved contemporaneously with their European counterparts, and were “neither an alien cultural phenomenon nor a merely derivative imitation of Spanish art, receiving influences from a broader European, as opposed to narrowly Spanish, spectrum of sources.” A point has been made to depict the sitters, not in a lavish European-style interior setting, but in the outdoors among a landscape including mountains, probably belonging to the Andes mountain range.
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