{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50269,"auction_id":100,"set_id":132,"lot_number":"20","artist":"A Day in the Country","title":"Photographer Unknown","starting_price":5000,"signed_dated":"c. 1880s","medium":null,"size":"8 1/4\" x 6 1/4\" (21 cm x 16 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno (1857– 1911) and\nDoña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino\n(Sra. de Paterno, d. 1897)","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno y Devera Ygnacio of Santa\nCruz, Manila, Filipinas married Doña Luisa Piñeyro de\nLugo y Merino of Madrid, Espana at the Santa Maria del\nVillar church in the ancestral Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino\nhometown of Ranoa, Coruna, Galicia, Espana on October\n1890. It was in the hamlet of Ranoa that the latifundio\n(extensive lands) of the Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino family\nwas located.\nIn Madrid in 1894, soon after being awarded the\nprestigious and coveted “Gran Cruz de La Real Orden de\nIsabel La Catolica” in 1893, Pedro was appointed as the\nnew “Director de Museo–Biblioteca de Filipinas” by Don\nAntonio Maura, Minister for Overseas Colonies and it was\nthe catalyst for Pedro to finally return to Manila after 23\nyears in Spain. Luisa joined him on his long–overdue\nhomecoming.\nBack in Manila, Pedro and Luisa took up\nresidence at his father Capitan Memo’s baronial home\nin Santa Cruz, Manila. The block–long house bounded\nby Calle San Roque, Calle Noria, Calle Quiotan, and Calle\nCarriedo had been rebuilt in the grandest style after\nthe disastrous 1880 earthquake and boasted of modern\nconveniences like running water and very soon, electricity\n(the next year 1895). Good food was never an issue,\nbecause the family could effortlessly afford the best fresh\nproduce and the finest imported goods at the Escolta\nand Divisoria. The house had an enfilade of opulent\nEuropean–style salons and a big household staff which\nsuited Luisa well; Luisa was assigned a “mayordoma”\nto serve as a personal assistant for her needs. She only\ncomplained about the summer heat. During extremely\nwarm days, Luisa was driven by carruaje to the Paterno\nsummerhouse in nearby Santa Ana, by the Rio Pasig,\nwhere she could enjoy the river breezes all day long. Pedro and Luisa were reabsorbed into the life\nof the family when they returned in 1894. Most of the\nsurviving 13 Paterno siblings (with the exception of\nthose who had married and chose to live elsewhere)\nwere still living in the large paternal home and it was\nthe hive of constant activity. His father Capitan Memo\nwas aging at 70 but still active in big business. His 60ish\nstepmother Tia Loleng was unwell (she would pass away\nthe next year 1895). His jeweler eldest sister Ate Guiday,\ncomely in youth, had become a spinster at 41 years old\nwho still ruled over the household; serious and dutiful\nKuya Jose was 39 and was married to Tio Lucas’ eldest\ndaughter Quita (Paterno); jeweler Cobang at 36 was\nstill a glamourous dresser; Dr Antonio was 34 (he would\npass away at 35 from appendicitis/peritonitis the next\nyear 1895) and was married to Andrea (Angeles); Dr\nMinong was 31 and was married to Tia Tinang’s eldest\ndaughter Cion (Zamora); sickly Paz at 27 was painting\nand winning prizes; 26 year–old Trining was still carefree\nand had no thoughts of getting married (she eventually\ndid at 34 to Claudio Gabriel in 1902). His young, quiet\nand unassuming half–brother Nano was 17. His young\nhalf–sister Concha was 16 years old and she amused\nand pestered him no end; Pedro felt great affection for\nyoung, playful Concha. Quiet younger brother Ciano\nwas 15; he was fascinated with medicines. His youngest\nhalf–sister Adela was a withdrawn 14 year–old and she\nwas another talented artist who liked to draw and paint\nall day long, she was also very good with a needle.\nIn late January, the Paternos usually attended\nthe opulent fiesta of the Santo Nino in Tondo, where the\nrichest Chinese mestiza matriarch of the district Doña\nSaturnina Salazar de Abreu (known as “Doña Ninay\nSupot”; a great financier/banker/moneylender) hosted grand fiesta celebrations one after the other. In April\nand September, the famous “El Anfitrion” (“host to the\ngods”) Capitan Joaquin Arnedo and Capitana Maria\nSioco of barrio Sulipan, Apalit, Pampanga celebrated\nthe two fiestas of “Nuestra Senora de la Soledad” with\nweek–long festivities of regal hospitality which several\nprominent Manila families like the Paternos, Zamoras,\nand Roxases regularly attended. Forty days after\nEaster, it was on to San Pablo de los Montes, Laguna\nfor the extravagant week–long fiesta of “El Senor de la\nAsencion” at the block–long palace of the Escuderos on\nthe town’s main thoroughfare. The month of May was the time for the pilgrimage to Antipolo, to pray at the\nsanctuary of the miraculous “Nuestra Senora de la Paz\ny Buenviaje”/Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, the\nBrown Madonna. It was a tradition for many Filipino\nfamilies to make the journey and the affluent Paternos\nwere no exception. They rented small houses (“bahay\nkubo”), donned on country attire, picnicked and bathed\nat the “Hinulugang Taktak” waterfalls, then danced\nand gambled at night. For cooler air, they journeyed to\nfaraway Majayjay, Laguna (the Baguio of the Spanish\ntimes). They traveled to the Aguas Santas in Los Banos\nfor hot water baths; to faraway Sibul Springs outside San Miguel de Mayumo for cool water baths. Late June, the\nvery social Arnedos feted the Apalit town patron “Apung\nIru” San Pedro Apostol and it was another week–long\nfiesta with exquisite food, nightly “bailes,” high–stakes\ngambling, and hunting in the nearby marshes. In early\nDecember, they trooped to the fiesta of “La Inmaculada\nConcepcion” in Malolos, Bulacan where the Tanchangcos\ndispensed their generous hospitality (matriarch Doña\nRosenda Mendoza was from Santa Cruz, Manila). Luisa\nenjoyed the levity and pleasure of it all.\nThe second Sunday of October was the time\nwhen all of “de alta sociedad de Manila” (like the\nPaternos) gathered at the Santo Domingo church in\nIntramuros for the annual “La Naval de Manila” fiesta\ncelebrations in honor of “Nuestra Senora del Santisimo\nRosario” (“Santo Rosario”), a famous and miraculous\nivory image weighed down with gold, precious gems,\nand magnificent vestments attributed with impossible\nSpanish naval victories over the Dutch in the 1600s and\ncountless contemporary personal miracles (the image\nof the “Santo Rosario” was far more resplendent than\nits counterparts in Spain --- “La Macarena” and “Los\nDesamparados”). “La Naval de Manila” in the 1800s was\na religious celebration as much as a social gala, and high\nsociety dressed up to the nines as it was also a pretext\nfor several “cenas” and “bailes” after the splendid holy\nmasses and novenas. The third Sunday of October was\nthe fiesta of “Nuestra Senora del Pilar” (Our Lady of the\nPillar), the titular patron of Santa Cruz. On that Sunday\nevening, all the affluent ladies and gentlemen of the\nPaterno–dominated “arrabal” marched in procession in\nhonor of the Virgin Mary; the ladies drenched in jewels\nand embroidered pina, and the gentlemen in their formal\nfrocks; several “cenas” and “bailes” in leading houses\nwere given after the church festivities, for Santa Cruz was\na rich district. The Christmas season was a wonderful\ntime with many parties/soirees/tertulias, exchanges\nof gifts, musical concerts, reciprocal visits to family\nand friends, fiestas, etc. And all year long, there were\nthe convivial Paterno family gatherings in their various\nresidences along Calle San Sebastian and in Santa Cruz\n--- baptisms, birthday parties, engagements, weddings,\nanniversaries, even funerals. Pedro enjoyed it all\nimmensely and realized it was what he had missed most\nduring his 23 years in Madrid. And there was certainly no dearth of entertainment for the expatriate Luisa, who took\npleasure in it all.\nAs Pedro and Luisa belonged to highest society\nin Manila --- Luisa being a genuine Spanish aristocrat\nand Pedro a member of an extremely affluent family\n--- they were constantly invited to the most select\ngatherings in the city. There were “almuerzos” (lunches),\n“cenas” (dinners), and “bailes” (dances) at the Palacio\nde Malacanan. There were endless parties at the great\nSpanish mestizo and Chinese mestizo villas by the Rio\nPasig in nearby San Miguel de Tanduay. There were\nequally luxurious fetes given by the biggest and richest\nbusinessmen in Binondo. Luisa very much enjoyed\nsocializing with her Spanish compatriots as well as the\nother Europeans. It was her taste of home.\nPedro and Luisa were married for only seven\nyears, four of which were spent in Madrid and three in\nManila. Pretty and full–bodied, even voluptuous in youth,\nLuisa had become corpulent in middle age. She had\nmost likely developed diabetes mellitus. The rigors of\nthe last forced voyage to Spain in September 1896 only to\nhurriedly return before August 1897 greatly weakened her.\nFearing possible death as he crisscrossed Luzon\nto meet several revolutionary leaders in preparation for\npeace talks, Pedro executed a mandate and declaration\nof marital consent (a de facto full power of attorney)\nin favor of Luisa, giving her sole power over all their\nproperties and possessions, paraphernal and conjugal.\nThis act underscored Pedro’s full understanding of his\nvery difficult mission.\nDuring the crucial Biak–na–Bato negotiations\nfrom August to December 1897, Luisa was already very\nill in Manila but she understood the importance of the\npeace talks and gave her husband Pedro permission to\ngo off to his mission.\nDoña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino, Sra. de\nPaterno, passed away in the Paterno summerhouse in\nSanta Ana, Manila on 28 November 1897.\nAfter the passing of Don Pedro Paterno on 27\nMarch 1911 at the age of 54, the Piñeyro de Lugo y\nMerino family in Madrid, Espana did not express any\nintention to claim anything from his estate. The marital\nconnection between the Paterno and the Piñeyro de\nLugo families gradually faded into history and oblivion.","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>A Day in the Country</strong><br />Photographer Unknown<br />c. 1880s <br />8 1/4\" x 6 1/4\" (21 cm x 16 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":12000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":12000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":14016,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":50309,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/100/132/lot/20.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[12000,14000,16000,18000,20000,25000,30000,35000,40000,45000,50000,55000,60000,70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":19,"next":21,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}