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Autorretrato
1894
Pío Casimiro Bacener
Born: San Juan, Puerto Rico 1840
Died: 1900
oil on wood
11 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (30.2 x 24.7 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Teodoro Vidal Collection
1996.91.12
Smithsonian American Art Museum
3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center
A freed slave at the time he made this self-portrait, Pío Casimiro Bacener depicts himself as a distinguished gentleman. His worried expression, however, belies his confident pose. This portrait was probably painted as an assignment for the Public School of Drawing in San Juan. It is painted over another image, revealed through X-ray photography, of a child or an angel with hands clasped in prayer.
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Ethnic - Puerto Rican
Occupation - art - painter
Portrait male - Bacener, Pio Casimiro - bust
Portrait male - Bacener, Pio Casimiro - self-portrait
painting
paint - oil
wood
About Pío Casimiro Bacener
Born: San Juan, Puerto Rico 1840 Died: 1900
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