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Portraits of the Dukes and Duchesses of Brabant, from Pipin I to Phillip II

Artist: Unidentified Quito Artists
Title: Portraits of the Dukes and Duchesses of Brabant, from Pipin I to Phillip II
Date: 1613
Medium: ¿Oil on canvas? paintings known only from the period description cited on p. 157 of Vargas O.P., Fray José María, Historia de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana and transcribed above.
Location: Originally, the paintings in question were part of the ephemeral architecture erected in the Cathedral of Quito under the direction of Sancho Díaz de Zurbano to mourn the death of Spanish Queen Margaret of Austria in 1611. Current whereabouts of these paintings are unknown. PESSCA welcomes any information leading to the location of these paintings.
Text Source: Fray José María Vargas OP. Historia de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, p. 157. Available online at cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/historia-de-la-cultura-ecuatoriana--0/html/
Correspondence Credit: The unidentified author of the period description transcribed above and Almerindo Ojeda.
Item: 5050B