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A Carioca

1882

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The story

Pedro Américo offered his first Carioca, a nude, to Emperor Pedro II, who refused it. The painting still won him a gold medal at the Imperial Academy, which he asked a friend to sell so he could keep studying, and this canvas is the second version he painted later.

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Object details

Title: A Carioca
Artist: Pedro Américo
Date: 1882
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro (678)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0938
Original image: 1878 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Pedro Américo. A Carioca. 1882. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro (678). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0938/