sartorialadventure: jeannepompadour:Doña María Josefa Juana de Llera y Bayas de Escand
sartorialadventure: jeannepompadour:Doña María Josefa Juana de Llera y Bayas de Escandón, I Condesa de Sierra Gorda., c. 1780 Oo, another Spanish woman with two watches! It must have been a Thing. Once more, this portrait nor the other one linked (Doña Juana María Romero by Ignacio María Barreda) are Spanish, both were painted in Mexico.Doña María Josefa Juana de Llera y Bayas de Escandón was the second wife of José de Escandón y Helguera, Count of Sierra Gorda, founder of Nuevo Santander, a region in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that is now Part of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and Texas.Bellow the portrait says that she died at 44 years old and was buried in the church of Nuevo Santander, that is not in Spain. She was part of one of the Newspanish wealthiest families.The other portrait (the one of Doña Juana María Moreno) is in Mexico City, and was part of the Pixit Mexici exhibition in the Met, so finding out that it is not Spanish but New Spanish/Mexican, is not hard at all.Spanish and New Spanish fashion are both extra (and we love it), but are not the same, please please please tag as such. I mean, we don’t tag as “English” art from the American colonies, right? So let’s not do that for the Spanish colonies -- source link
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