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Portrait of María Anna Josefa Taking Vow

1793 · Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

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Alcibar was a famous painter in Mexico in the viceregal period. He painted murals in many cathedrals, and painted portraits of nuns. In 18th-century Mexico hundreds of portraits were produced on the occasion of taking vow of chastity of young girls going to a convent.

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Portrait of María Anna Josefa Taking Vow

About the Artist

José de Alcibar

1725 – 1803

Mexican painter, the last of the painters belonging to the old Mexican school. Very little is known about his life. He was a member of the Mexican academy of art which existed in Mexico City from 1753. The academy probably consisted mostly of Christian subject painters and possibly sculptors. Alcibar executed many works of merit, especially two large paintings in the cathedral of Mexico, dated 1779.

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