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VII. From Spaniard and Morsica, Albino (VII. De español y morisca, albino)  1760

by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz

These three works belong to a set of casta paintings by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz that originally had sixteen scenes (over time many sets have been disassembled). Each scene depicts a family group with parents of different races and one of their children. During the colonial period Indians, Spaniards born in Spain as well as the New World (the latter known as Creoles), an...
Size: 
39 7/16 × 47 7/16 in. (100.17 × 120.49 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art