The present portrait belongs to the early part of the artist’s career, cut short by his untimely death in 1845.
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This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi, “De quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis”, Bologna 1637, 267.
These animal pictures can be found in the “Tavola di animali” vol. 6/2, fol. 87.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi “Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium”, Bologna 1642, 127.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi “Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia”, Bologna 1621, 369.
These animal pictures can be found in the “Tavola di animali” vol. 5/1, fol. 20.
Alcibar was a famous painter in Mexico in the viceregal period. He painted murals in many cathedrals, and painted portraits of nuns. In 18th-century Mexico hundreds of portraits were produced on the occasion of taking vow of chastity of young girls going to a convent. This painting representing a 16 years old girl belongs to this series.




















