De Castisa y Español, Español (no. 3)
Medium
Oil on canvas, affixed to a lower wooden roller
Dimensions
95.5 x 55.4 cm;
37 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.
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Provenance
Basilio Fernández Cavada, resident in Mexico, later taken by him to San Felices de Buelna,
Cantabria;
by descent to his grandson Fernando Fernández-Cavada y París, Conde de la Vega del Pozo (1928–
2018), Dominican Republic;
by whom retained until the 1970s;
Private collection, Madrid.
Literature
C. G. Saiz, Las castas mexicanas. Un género pictórico americano, Turin 1989, p. 159, fig. XXI.
E. I. Estrada de Gerlero, “Las pinturas de castas, imágenes de una sociedad variopinta”, in México
en el Mundo de las Colecciones de Arte, Nueva España 2, vol. IV, Mexico, 1994, p. 96.
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