Provenance: : Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno (1857– 1911) and Doña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino (Sra. de Paterno, d. 1897)

ABOUT THE WORK

A photograph from a happier age, Juan Luna dressed as a Roman emperor, a crown of roses and laurels in his hair, one suspects triumphant after one artistic victory after another. Featured is Pedro's brother Maximino who would graduate as a doctor from the Universidad Central de Madrid. On the leftside of the photo, another pair of brothers : the author, Trinidad Hermenegildo and Felix, an artist who would also go to Madrid as a pensionado. In the center is the tragic and beautiful Paz Pardo de Tavera. On the right, Valentin Ventura, a favorite fencing partner of Juan Luna and Jose Rizal. Ventura would pay for the printing of Rizal’s “El Filibusterismo.”