{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":79,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"41","artist":"Simon Flores y de la Rosa (1839 - 1904)","title":"Portrait of Senora Doña Anacleta Miranda Y Manalo De Angeles","starting_price":400000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)\nca. 1890","medium":"graphite on paper","size":"Artwork: 23 1/2” x 17” (60cm x 43cm)\nWith Frame: H: 32 1/2” x W: 26” x L: 4 1/2” (83 cm x 66 cm x 11 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM A VERY DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR","coa":null,"provenance":"Angeles–David family of Bacolor, Pampanga Acquired from the above from the present owner","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Portrait of an Hacendera\nof Old Bacolor, Pampanga\nby AUGUSTO MARCELINO REYES GONZALEZ III <br /><br />\n\nThe lady in the charcoal sketch looks intently at the artist. Her eyes are kind but bothered. She was once a comely woman, but Age has thinned her hair, furrowed her eyebrows, dragged down and bagged her eyes, sunk her cheeks, shrunk her lips, sagged her chin, and wrinkled her neck, and all that decline the artist still sought to capture. She is in her forties and has already lived much of her life. She is a widow, her children have lost their father. Quo vadis? Where does she go from here? She is a woman of means: she wears an embroidered “nipis” “panuelo” and “camisa” as well as a gold “rosario” (“tamborin” necklace) under her “panuelo,” “criolla” style “aretes” earrings, an “alfiler” pin to secure her “panuelo,” and definitely a gold and tortoiseshell “peineta,” although unseen, to keep her hair in place. “Miniaturismo”: every bit of her is rendered by the artist in painstaking detail --- hair, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, ears, mouth, chin, and neck. Her whole life as seen on her face has been depicted faithfully by the artist --- with all its joys and sadness, happiness and trials, triumphs and failures. The lady knows what it is like to go to hell and back. <br /><br />\nAccording to Mr Gino Gonzales (top production designer, CCP educator, foremost scholar and researcher on Filipiniana dress, Tisch School NYU scholar, protégé of National Artist for Theater and Design Salvador Bernal), the “panuelo” of the lady’s “traje de mestiza” is in the style of the 1890s as it is already slightly away from the neck and it has two crevices or dimples on either side, with a dropped shoulder line. That differentiates it from the 1880s or even 1870s “panuelos” which are worn closer to the neck and the two end points meet, and the embroidery patterns are coordinated with the camisa as “ternos bordados” (as in the 1870s portraits of Agueda and Dolores Paterno by Justiniano Asuncion). <br /><br />\n“Impung Cleta.” At the time of its deaccession by the Angeles–David family in barrio San Vicente, Bacolor, her full name was already lost to the current generation; nobody knew her identity anymore. However, the story persisted that she was an independent, intrepid, and strong–willed lady. Obviously, she married because she had descendants as “Impung Cleta.” <br /><br />\nThere was even a quiet yarn: there was a lady in the family, not necessarily Impung Cleta, who had a lifelong but childless love affair with one of the most prominent married hacenderos of Bacolor town. The hacendero and his legal wife were depicted in bust–sized oil portraits by a famous painter, while the lady was presented with a smaller portrait, also by the famous painter, in another medium. The ages–old yarn cannot be verified. <br /><br />\nFortuitously, socially popular Buyson–Angeles grandson Dr Tadeo Buyson Gonzales (“Taddy”) remembered Dona Anacleta to be his mother Emiliana’s (aka “Diding’s”) maternal grandmother. It turned out that Dona Anacleta Miranda y Manalo de Angeles was actually the maternal grandmother of the exquisite Buyson sisters who were Bacolor’s foremost socialites for much of the 1900s (Bacolor’s version of the Cushing Sisters of Boston, Massachussetts --- pretty, intelligent, and married well): fashion icon “La Suprema” Josefina Buyson–Eusebio (“Pitang”), Ambassador Carmen Buyson\n(“Mameng”), Luz Buyson–Gomez (“Lucing”), Atty Emiliana Buyson– Gonzales (“Diding”), Asuncion Buyson–de la Cruz (“Cion”), and Pilar Buyson–Villarama (“Pilar”). Dr Tadeo Buyson Gonzales’ recollections are all reliable and verifiable.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":25,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":350,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":42,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/41.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":40,"next":42,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}