Doña María de la Luz Padilla y Gómez de Cervantes

Artist:Miguel Cabrera

Medium: Oil on canvas

Geograhical Locations:

• 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)

Collections:

• American Art

Exhibitions:

• American Art
• 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
• American Identities: A New Look

Accession Number: 52.166.4

Image: 52.166.4_PS20.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Dona Maria de la Luz Padilla y Cervantes (1732-1789). An oil painting by Miguel Cabrera which shows Dona Maria as a grown young lady. She is the same person as the preceding portrait as an adult. She is shown in a three-quarter view and length in a dress with heavy gold embroidery in a floral pattern against a white background. Her hair is powdered and she has beauty patches on her face. She wears elaborate jewels in her ears, at her neck, and a pectoral, also jewel rings and bracelets. She stands in front of a gold curtain and holds a fan in her right hand and flowers in her left hand. Condition: Good, it has been restored around the edges and on the dress b the Museum Laboratory.

Brooklyn Museum