Juan Manuel de Ávila (active 1753-1765), Portrait of Sr. Regidor Don Manuel Joseph Pérez Valiente de Moctezuma

Juan Manuel de Ávila (active 1753-1765)
Portrait of Sr. Regidor Don Manuel Joseph Pérez Valiente de Moctezuma
signed 'Jn. Manuel de Ávila Pinxit.' (lower right) inscribed 'EL Sr. REGIDOR Dn. MANUEL JOSEPH PEREZ VALIENTE DE MOTEZUMA INSPECTOR DE MILICIAS DE MEXICO Y RIO DE LA PLATA (upper right) inscribed 'A CORAZON VALIENTE NADA IMPOSIBLE' (upper left)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 27 ¾ (100.3 x 70.5 cm.)

Post Lot Text
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3 A. Meyer, “Re-Dressing Classical Statuary: The Eighteenth-Century ‘Hand-in-Waistcoat’ Portrait.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 77, no. 1, 1995, p. 45–63.
4 D. Pierce, Companion to Spanish Colonial Art, Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2012, 91.