Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Simón Bolívar]
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Accession number:
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00-132
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Record number:
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00-132
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JCB call number:
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Bolívar Room
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Image title:
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[Simón Bolívar]
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Creator 1:
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José R. Salas
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Creator 1 dates:
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fl. 1870-1894
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Place image published:
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[Rome]
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Image date:
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1890
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Image function:
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painting
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Technique:
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oil painting
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Image dimension height:
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42 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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32 cm.
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Materials medium:
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oil
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Materials support:
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canvas
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Description:
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Portrait of Simón Bolívar in military attire.
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notes:
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This painting was sold directly to the U.S. minister plenipotentiary in Quito in 1892. The portrait is based on an 1824 print by Kepper. Boulton states that the lithograph was based in part on the copper engraving of M. N. Bate made in London in 1819. The great grandfather of Salas was Antonio Salas, a personal friend of Bolívar and one of the few who painted him from life in 1822, 1824, 1826, and 1829.
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References:
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Boulton, A. Le Rostro de Bolívar, p. 97, item 57, 98; Arocha, M. Iconografía Ecuatoreana del Libertador, p. 87-126; www.bolivar.ula.ve/cgi-win/be_alex.exe?Acceso=T011900000379/0&Nombrebd=BOLIVAR (Jan. 2004)
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References exhibitions:
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John Carter Brown Library, Portraits of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, no. 13
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 2000. Gift of Maury A. Bromsen.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Portraits
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Subject headings:
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Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830--Portraits
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