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Campeche, Jose,
Portrait female -- Martinez de Carvajal, Maria de los Dolores
Dress -- Historic
Dress -- Accessory
Object -- Musical Instrument
Ethnic -- Hispanic
Painting
Maria Dolores Martinez de Carvajal, (painting).
Artist:
Campeche, Jose, 1751-1809, painter.
Title:
Maria Dolores Martinez de Carvajal, (painting).
Other Titles:
Maria de los Dolores Martinez de Carvajal, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1792.
Medium:
Oil on board.
Dimensions:
17 5/8 x 12 1/2 in. (45 x 32 cm.).
Inscription:
(On letter:) A / Dn. Ramon Carvajal / 2o. Capn. del Regimto. Ynfa. / Fixo (en) Pto. rico (sic). (On envelope:) Para / Dna. Maria de los Dolores / Martinez de Carvajal / Pto. rico (sic). (Next to clavichord:) Jose Campeche signed
Description:
Full-length portrait of Maria Dolores Martinez de Carvajal wearing an elaborate hat with feathers, laces and flowers, and a stylish 1790's pink dress with a white laced wide collar over a red bodice and ample pink skirt with green and silver lame details. She stands in a Rococo style room next to an open clavichord. She holds a letter in her proper right hand and a fan in her proper left hand.
Subject:
Portrait female -- Martinez de Carvajal, Maria de los Dolores -- Full length
Dress -- Historic -- Eighteenth Century Dress
Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
Object -- Musical Instrument -- Clavichord
Ethnic -- Hispanic
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Lacosta de Nevarez, Carmen, Puerto Rico
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Nevares-Bolivar Family, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Remarks:
Married to Don Ramon Carvajal also painted by Campeche. Later married Don Francisco Mechtler.
References:
Barrenechea, Francisco J., et al., "Campeche, Oller, Rodon: Tres Siglos de Pintura Puertorriquena/Three Centuries of Puerto Rican Painting," San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1992.
"Jose Campeche, 1751-1809," San Juan de Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1971.
Illustration:
Barrenechea, Francisco J., et al., "Campeche, Oller, Rodon: Tres Siglos de Pintura Puertorriquena," San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1992, pg. 18.
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 88480002
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