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Miguel Cabrera: New Spain’s Murillo

Published on , by Vanessa Schmitz-Grucker
Auction on 16 February 2023 - 19:00 (CET) - Conde de Salvatierra, 8 - 08006 Barcelone

Acclaimed as one of the greatest painters of New Spain and the leading exponent of casta painting, Miguel Cabrera also produced a body of religious work imbued with Spanish and French influences.

Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1715/1720-1768), The Divine Shepherdess, oil on... Miguel Cabrera: New Spain’s Murillo

Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1715/1720-1768), The Divine Shepherdess, oil on canvas, 39 x 31.5 cm/15.4 x 12.4 in.
Estimate: €40,000/50,000

Miguel Cabrera studied painting with the Rodríguez Juárez brothers or, according to some sources, with José de Ibarra (1688-1756), one of the viceroyalty’s most prolific artists, accused by his detractors of diverging from Mexican painting by perpetuating Murillo…
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