The National Museum of San Carlos had another special exhibition when I visited on Wednesday.
"Reflections and Visions: The Portrait in the Modern Age" is a collection of portrait paintings selected from the museum's collection. There were several galleries of portraits dating from the Renaissance up to the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the paintings were done by unknown or obscure artists, but there were also works done by better-known painters.
Here are a few of the paintings that were on display...
"Portrait of a Boy"
by Piero de Cosimo (Italian)
1500
"Portrait of Frederick of Saxony"
by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Germany)
1510
"Portrait of a Man with a Fur Coat"
by Peter Paul Rubens (Flanders)
1610
"Portrait of a Man"
by Tintoretto (Italy)
1550
"Portrait of a Bearded Man"
by Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish)
1620
"Self Portrait"
by Eugenio Landesio (Italy)
1873
(You may recall from a couple posts ago that Landesio was the teacher of the great Mexican landscape painter José María Velasco.)
"Self Portrait"
by Germán Gedovius (Mexican)
1907
(You might also recall the name of Gedovius from earlier. Some of his paintings were displayed in the exhibit on Mexican landscapes.)
"Portrait of Sir William Stanhope"
by Sir Joshua Reynolds (England)
1725
"Portrait of Sir Nicholas Vanstittart"
by Thomas Lawrence (England)
1825
Not ALL of the portraits were of men, although all the artists in the exhibit were male.
"Portrait of Ana García Icazbalceta"
by Pelegrin Clavé (Spanish)
1851
"Lady in White"
by Juan Antonio Benilliure (Spanish)
1897
"Portrait of the Daughter of the Duke of Liria"
by Mariano Salvador Maella (Spain)
1790
"Portrait of a Girl"
by Germán Gedovius
1915
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