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Puerto Rico within this wake — Francisco Oller

Francisco Oller’s El velorio depicts a baquiné and offers an artistic, historical and critical view of Puerto Rican society.

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  • UPR’s Museum of History, Anthropology and Art identifies the work as El velorio, dated 1893, donated by Oller to the university in 1915.
  • Getty also dates the painting to 1893 and identifies its medium as oil on cloth.
  • The Smithsonian describes the baquiné as a child-wake custom connected to folk Catholicism and African diasporic beliefs.
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MHAA UPR: colección de arteGetty CONA: El velorioSmithsonian: contexto del baquinéSource packetYouTube Short
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