may 10, 1750 - Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Description:
Miguel Cabrera. c. 1750 C.E. Oil on canvas.Considered the first feminist of the Americas, sor Juana lived as a nun of the Jeronymite order (named for St. Jerome) in seventeenth-century Mexico. Renown of Sister Juana as one of the most important early poets of the Americas. The inscription identifies the image as a faithful copy after a portrait that she herself made and painted with her own hand.
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Date:
may 10, 1750
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~ 275 years ago