{"id":11572,"date":"2011-01-18T22:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:38:23","slug":"dominica-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11572","title":{"rendered":"Dominica in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominica in Brooklyn<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times
\n<\/a>2011-01-13<\/p>\n

Carol Vogel<\/strong>, Art Reporter<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Museum<\/a> has acquired an 18th-century painting<\/a> by Agostino Brunias<\/a>, a little-known London<\/a>-based Italian<\/a> artist. Around 1764 the British<\/a> government sent Brunias to the West Indies<\/a> to document one of that empire\u2019s newest colonies<\/a>, Dominica<\/a>. Depicting two richly dressed <\/strong>mulatto<\/strong><\/a> women on a walk accompanied by their mother and children\u2014all members of the island\u2019s colonial elite\u2014the painting also shows eight African servants on a sugar plantation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a large West Indian community,\u201d said Richard Aste<\/a>, the museum\u2019s curator of European art. \u201cWhen I saw it, it just screamed Brooklyn<\/a>. We were looking for something from the 18th century, and we didn\u2019t have anything like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Aste first saw the painting in Paris<\/a> in September at the booth of the London gallery Robilant & Voena<\/a> at the Biennale des Antiquaires<\/a>. The dealers had bought it from Sotheby\u2019s<\/a> after the painting failed to sell at auction a year ago. It had belonged to Jayne Wrightsman, a collector and a longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the Brooklyn Museum will not say what it paid for the painting, Sotheby\u2019s was estimating it would bring $200,000 to $300,000. The museum has titled the canvas \u201cFree Women of Color With Their Children and Servants in a Landscape,\u201d and it will go on view on March 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dominica in Brooklyn The New York Times 2011-01-13 Carol Vogel, Art Reporter The Brooklyn Museum has acquired an 18th-century painting by Agostino Brunias, a little-known London-based Italian artist. Around 1764 the British government sent Brunias to the West Indies to document one of that empire\u2019s newest colonies, Dominica. Depicting two richly dressed mulatto women on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,21,459,8,20,25],"tags":[2044,5231,5230,5327,5232,5228,2327],"class_list":["post-11572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-agostino-brunias","tag-carol-vogel","tag-dominica","tag-rich-aste","tag-richard-aste","tag-the-brooklyn-museum","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}