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Campeche, Jose,
Vouet, Simon,
Disaster -- Shipwreck
Portrait male -- Power y Giralt, Ramon
Architecture -- Boat
Architecture -- Boat
Figure group -- Male
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Painting
El Salvamento de Don Ramon Power, (painting).
Artist:
Campeche, Jose, 1751-1809, painter.
Vouet, Simon, painter. (copy after)
Title:
El Salvamento de Don Ramon Power, (painting).
Other Titles:
Rescue of Ramon Power, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1790.
Medium:
Oil on wood Panel.
Dimensions:
17 x 12 1/4 in. (43 x 31 cm.).
Inscription:
(Lower edge:) Naufragio de que, por la intercesion de Nra. Sra. de Belen se libro Dn. Ramon Power al querer saltar en la Costa de Cantabria de / la Fragata La Esperanza en una lancha que del Puerto de Castro salio a socorrerla de una furiosa tempestad. Jose Campeche la pin. signed
Description:
Rescue scene in which a boat reaches the sinking vessel La Espernza off the coast of Cantabria, Spain. The main event is the rescue of the child Ramon Power y Giralt who has jumped off the ship but has landed in the water. Rescue workers are in the process of pulling him off the sea.
Subject:
Disaster -- Shipwreck
Portrait male -- Power y Giralt, Ramon -- Child
Architecture -- Boat -- Esperanza
Architecture -- Boat -- Sailing Ship
Figure group -- Male
Object Type:
Copy
Painting
Owner:
Iglesia de San Jose, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Remarks:
English title supplied by Inventory cataloger.
Ex-voto presented by the parents of Ramon Power (1775-1813) to the Chapel of Our Lady of Bethlehem in the Church of Santo Domingo (now Iglesia de San Jose) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as a token of thanks for the rescue of their son in 1789. See exhibition catalog for exhibition history and additional bibliographic citations.
References:
"Jose Campeche, 1751-1809," San Juan de Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1971.
Illustration:
"Jose Campeche, 1751-1809," San Juan de Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1971, pg. 53.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 88490007
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Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
88490007
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