Hacienda Aurora
Artist
Francisco Oller y Cestero
(Puerto Rican, 1833 - 1917)
Date1898
Object number83.1252
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions12 5/8 × 21 7/8 in. (32 × 55.6 cm)
frame: 20 3/16 × 29 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (51.3 × 74.9 × 5.4 cm)
frame: 20 3/16 × 29 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (51.3 × 74.9 × 5.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Gift of Dolores Forteza, in memory of Víctor Saldaña.
Collections
On View
Not on viewDescriptionLocated in Carolina, near San Juan, the hacienda in the painting was one of the many sugar plantations that flourished in Puerto Rico in the nineteenth century. It was owned by Oller’s friend José Saldaña, who put up the artist and his family there during the American invasion of 1898. Oller probably painted this view during that stay. He chose to show the older section of the estate, which had been abandoned for over a decade, to capture the play of light on the buildings and landscape. In the painting the plantation appears to be working, although there is little activity in the fields.
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