Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz
Illustration — Morlete Ruiz, The Heart of Mary Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (San Miguel de Allende, 1713–1772, Mexico City) was an 18th-century Mexican painter, a mestizo according to the system of racial classification. He is most well known for his casta paintings. Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz was born in 1713 in San Miguel de Allende, he was a contemporary of Miguel Cabrera.
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz
Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (1713 - 1772) – painter (Mexican) Born in Guanajuato. Details on Google Art Project · TAFcx9ThkUZqHw at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level · Public domain
- Born
- 1713 · San Miguel de Allende.
- Died
- 1772 · Mexico City.
- Nationality
- Mexico · New Spain
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Morlete Ruiz, The Heart of Mary Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (San Miguel de Allende, 1713–1772, Mexico City) was an 18th-century Mexican painter, a mestizo according to the system of racial classification. He is most well known for his casta paintings. Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz was born in 1713 in San Miguel de Allende, he was a contemporary of Miguel Cabrera.
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Born at San Miguel de Allende in 1713, died in Mexico City in 1772.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Work by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museo Nacional de Arte, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Pintura, óleo sobre lienzo, con escenas de caza, atribuida a Juan Patricio Morlete (ca. 1760). Colección Abelló.
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- 1.Sanchiz, Javier (2003), 'El grupo familiar de Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, pintor novohispano', in Aneles del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, vol. XXXV, n. 103, http://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/2505
- 2.Ilona Katzew. "Valiant Styles: New Spanish Painting, 1700-85", in Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820, Luisa Elena Alcalá and Jonathan Brown. New Haven: Yale University Press 2014, p. 169.
- 3.New Acquisition; Three Casta Paintings by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz.http://lacma.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/new-acquisition-three-casta-paintings-by-juan-patricio-morlete-ruiz/
- 4.Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz: Conservation of the Ports of France. lacma.org.
- 5.Ilona Katzew. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
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