Portrait of the Reverend Mother María Antonia de Rivera
Attributed to Andrés López, Mexico, 1727 - 1807
Geography:
Made in Mexico, North and Central America
Date:
c. 1757Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
49 x 31 5/8 inches (124.5 x 80.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
1903-920Credit Line:
The Dr. Robert H. Lamborn Collection, 1903
Made in Mexico, North and Central America
Date:
c. 1757Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
49 x 31 5/8 inches (124.5 x 80.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 272, European Art 1500-1850, second floor
Accession Number:1903-920Credit Line:
The Dr. Robert H. Lamborn Collection, 1903
Label:
In the eighteenth century it became fashionable among Mexican families to commission portraits of daughters who were taking their final vows to become nuns. Known as monjas coronadas, "crowned nuns," the portraits showed the young women as brides of Christ, wearing wedding rings and elaborate floral crowns. The inscriptions on this painting, some added after the death of the sitter, indicate that she was born in 1736, took vows in 1757, became a prioress or director of her order in 1791, and died in 1806.
In the eighteenth century it became fashionable among Mexican families to commission portraits of daughters who were taking their final vows to become nuns. Known as monjas coronadas, "crowned nuns," the portraits showed the young women as brides of Christ, wearing wedding rings and elaborate floral crowns. The inscriptions on this painting, some added after the death of the sitter, indicate that she was born in 1736, took vows in 1757, became a prioress or director of her order in 1791, and died in 1806.
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