Room for Pride: The Municipal Portrait Gallery in Old San Juan

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE

NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0173

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Abstract

The present essay focuses on the portrait gallery housed in the sala de cabildos of Old San Juan’s city hall during the nineteenth century. Because this was the room in which the city council met, it became a symbolically charged space that acted as a locus of local civic pride. Two impressive full-length portraits of governors of the island stood out within the gallery: the Portrait of Ramón de Castro by local painter José Campeche (1751–1809) and the Portrait of Miguel de la Torre by Eliab Metcalf (1785–1834), a painter born in Massachusetts who sojourned in the island. Both are unusual in that they celebrate Puerto Ricanness and present the viewer with a particular vision of local identity within the context of the Spanish colonial empire. Besides commissioning these portraits, the city council orchestrated social events during which San Juan citizens could view the sala de cabildos and become actors in the performance of social identity.

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骄傲的空间:圣胡安老城区的市政肖像画廊

目前的文章集中在肖像画廊安置在老圣胡安市政厅的sala de cabildos在19世纪。因为这是市议会开会的地方，它成为了一个具有象征意义的空间，是当地公民自豪感的所在地。两幅令人印象深刻的岛上总督的全身肖像在画廊中脱颖而出:当地画家joss Campeche(1751-1809)的Ramón de Castro肖像和Eliab Metcalf(1785-1834)的Miguel de la Torre肖像，Eliab Metcalf出生于马萨诸塞州，曾在岛上居住。这两部作品的不同之处在于，它们颂扬波多黎各人的特性，并在西班牙殖民帝国的背景下，向观众呈现一种特殊的地方身份。除了委托这些肖像外，市议会还策划了一些社会活动，在这些活动中，圣胡安市民可以观看sala de cabildos，并成为社会身份表演的演员。

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期刊介绍： Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.