18:21 07/26/2009
Those "beauty" marks are actually fake and were a popular style at the time. They are made of velvet and pasted on. This predates the Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford natural versions by several hundred years.
12:51 08/28/2008
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Doña María de la Luz Padilla y (Gómez de) Cervantes
- Artist: Miguel Cabrera, Mexican, 1695-1768
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Place Made: Mexico
- Dates: ca. 1760
- Dimensions: 43 x 33 in. (109.2 x 83.8 cm) Frame: 57 x 41 x 8 in. (144.8 x 104.1 x 20.3 cm)
- Inscriptions: Middle left: "D.n Maria d la Lus /Padilla y Cervantes/ Mich.l Cabrera Pinxt"
- Collections: American Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Elevator Lobby, 3rd Floor - Accession Number: 52.166.4
- Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund and the Dick S. Ramsay Fund
- Image: Overall, 52.166.4_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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