Ramón Torres Mendez (1809-1885)

Types and Costumes of Colombia

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Ramón Torres Mendez (1809-1885)
Types and Costumes of Colombia
the majority signed 'Torres pint'
watercolour
10 x 13¼in. (25.4 x 33.7cm.) and smaller
fourteen on eleven sheets taken from an album
eleven (11)

拍品专文

A native of Bogota, Torres Mendez worked primarily in the popular costumbrista tradition. His Cuadros de Costumbres Granadinas were lithographed in 1851 and he contributed caricatures and satires to Los Matachines Illustrados from 1855.