Collection

Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez Cervantes

Mexican

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Painted in two major colonial American centers, these portraits from Boston and Mexico City (then New Spain) share a formality of pose and an emphasis on fine costume that reveal a common source in European portraiture. John Haskins holds his hand on his hip, in a pose of authority found in Elizabethan portraits. Nevertheless, this upright barrel maker known as “Honest John Haskins” was a modest patron when compared to his wealthy and ambitious Mexican counterpart. The inscription at the bottom of Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez Cervantes’s portrait lists honors and inherited titles that explicitly identify him as a descendant of an aristocratic Spanish American family.

Caption

Mexican. Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez Cervantes, 1788. Oil on canvas, 40 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (102.9 × 82.6 cm) frame: 45 3/8 × 37 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (115.3 × 95.9 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 52.166.6. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Culture

Mexican

Title

Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez Cervantes

Date

1788

Geography

Place made: Mexico

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

40 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (102.9 × 82.6 cm) frame: 45 3/8 × 37 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (115.3 × 95.9 × 7 cm)

Inscriptions

Inscribed across the bottom: " El Sr. Dn. Ignacio Leonel Gomez de Cervantes, Padilla, Niño de Cordova, Riva de Neyra, Fernandez de la Higuera, Gorraes Estrada Ve-/(lasco) Urrutia de Vergara, Cavallero Maestrante de la Real de Ronda, Marques de Salinas del Rio de Pizuerga. Señor de las Vi-/llas de Berniches de Sauguiya, de Enares Gentil Hombre de Camara de S.M.C. con entrada. Alclade Ordinario / (last line of inscription destroyed)."

Credit Line

Museum Collection Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

52.166.6

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Artists and makers

Mexican

18 works in the collection