Doña María de la Luz Padilla y Gómez de Cervantes

Artist:Nicolás Enríquez

Medium: Oil on canvas

Geograhical Locations:

• Mexico

Dates:ca. 1735

Dimensions: Oval: 35 3/8 x 26 in. (89.9 x 66 cm) frame: 43 1/16 x 33 1/2 x 3 11/16 in. (109.4 x 85.1 x 9.4 cm)

Collections:

• American Art

Museum Location: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness

Exhibitions:

• About Time: 700 Years of European Paintings
• Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America
• Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898
• Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art

Accession Number: 52.166.3

Image: 52.166.3_PS6.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Dona Maria de la Luz Padilla y Cervantes (1732-1789). An oil painting by an unknown artist which shows Dona Maria as a child of three years old. In this oval portrait she is dressed typically in adult clothes. Her dress is red and blue trimmed with lace. She holds a bunch of red carnations in her left hand and a fan in her right hand. In the right side of the picture is a stool with a blue cover and gold fringe on which is quarter view facing the right side. Condition: good with some small dotted scratches.

Brooklyn Museum