LAFAYETTE: Mexican Colonial Masterpiece Rescued From Under Local Couch

LAFAYETTE: Mexican Colonial Masterpiece Rescued From Under Local Couch

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Apr 11, 2015 7

An 18th century painting produced by the most accomplished Mexican artist of his age and lost over intervening decades has been located and recovered from its resting place: under Christina Jones Janssen’s couch in Lafayette. Miguel Cabrera’s long lost De Español y Morisca; Albina – number 6 in an allegorical series of paintings done by the artist in Mexico…