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58 The Family of Dr. Joseph Montegut, ca. 1798-1800 Oil on canvas; 59 x 74 in. Louisiana State Museum COLONIAL THROUGH ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA JOSÉ FRANCISCO XAVIER DE SALAZAR Y MENDOZA b. ca. mid-1700s, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico d. 1802, New Orleans, Louisiana One name emerges consistently in the study of Spanish colonial painting in Louisiana: José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza. In 1782, Salazar arrived in New Orleans from Mérida in the Yucatán of Mexico. For the next two decades, he produced a visual record of Louisiana’s prominent civic, military, and religious leaders, including Andrés Almonester y Roxas, Padre Antonio de Sedella, Bishop Luís de Peñalver y Cárdenas, and Carlos Trudeau, the first surveyor general during Spanish domination. Salazar’s painting of the socially prominent Dr. Joseph Montegut, his wife, her aunt, and six children, circa 1797, is the only known group portrait from early nineteenth-century Louisiana. Characterized by even lighting and a limited palette, Salazar’s portraits often feature warm accents in skin tones. JHB  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=457 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=457

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