Sor Maria Francisca de San Calletano
Artist:
Felix Zarate
(Mexican, active 19th century)
Date: ca. 1840
General region:Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
78 3/4 x 46 7/8 in. (200 x 119.1 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Robert J. Kleberg and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation
Object number: 91.132
Inscribed: Bottom of front: Retrato de la [Reverenda] Madre Sor [Maria] Francisca de [San] Calletano, en el siglo se llamó [Doña] Fransisca Leal y Bidrio hija legítima de [Don] Laurenao Leal y Franquilina de Bidrio nació el dia 10 de [Octubre] de 1820. Fué desde tierna edad inclinada al claustro. Fué colegiala del [convento] de [Santa] [Maria] de Grasia... y profesó de belo negro en el mismo combento [de] dia 2 de Abril del año de 1840 de 20 años de Edad.
Exhibition History: "Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits," Febrauary 4, 2006 -- April 30, 2006, San Antonio Museum of Art
El Museo del Barrio, New York
December 3, 2004 - March 20, 2005
San Diego Museum of Art
April 16 - July 12, 2005
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
July 23-October 2, 2005
National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillion Ripley Center,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
October 21, 2005 - January 8, 2006
San Antonio Museum of Art
February 4 - April 30, 2006
Published References
Marion Oettinger, et al. Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portrairs (Yale University Press, 2004), plate 55.
Label Text
Born Francisca Leal y Bidrio, Sor María (b. 1820) came from a well-known Jalisco family. A full-length portrait of her mother (1852) by Guadalajara artist José María Mares is known. Sor María is shown as a "crowned nun" wearing the Dominican habit and a rosary. A disc with the Dominican emblem and a depiction of Saint Dominic of Guzmán hangs from her habit. She carries a lit candle, a symbol of fidelity, and an image of the Christ child. Her crown represents victory over sin and contains images of the Immaculate Conception, her patron saint, Saint Calletano, and an unidentified figure.
(Marion Oettinger, 1998)
(Marion Oettinger, 1998)
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