Folding Screen with the Siege of Belgrade (front) and Hunting Scene (reverse)
ca.1697-1701
González Family
Mexican
European Art
This biombo enconchado is the only known work to combine the two elite Mexican genres of biombos (folding screens) and tableros de concha nácar y pintura (shell-inlay paintings later known as enconchados). Commissioned in Mexico City by the viceroy of New Spain, it was most likely displayed in Mexico’s viceregal palace, where it would have divided a ceremonial state room from a more intimate sitting room. The work originally included six additional panels, which are now in Mexico.
- Maker/Artist
- González Family
- Classification
- Screen
- Formatted Medium
- Oil on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
- Medium
- oil, wood, inlaid, mother-of-pearl
- Dimensions
- 90 1/2 x 108 5/8 in., 183.5 lb. (229.9 x 275.8 cm, 83.24kg) each panel: 90 1/2 x 18 1/8 in. (229.9 x 46 cm)
- Departments
- European Art
- Accession Number
- 2012.21
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lilla Brown in memory of her husband, John W. Brown, by exchange
- Exhibitions
- Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898, Diverse Works: Director's Choice, 1997-2015, American Art
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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