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painting of a valley in Mexico, with ridges of brown, yellow and green, and a lake and snow-capped mountains in the distance
José María Velasco. The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877. Oil on canvas, 161 × 228.5 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBAL, Mexico City. © Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Photo: Francisco Kochen. X12231.

José María Velasco: A View of Mexico

The exhibition “José María Velasco: A View of Mexico” celebrates one of the greatest 19th-century landscape painters in the Americas. His impressive panoramic views of the Valley of Mexico—home of modern-day Mexico City—are painted with exquisite detail, honoring both the country’s rich historical heritage and the rapid modernization it underwent in the late 1800s.   

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José María Velasco: A View of Mexico

The exhibition “José María Velasco: A View of Mexico” celebrates one of the greatest 19th-century landscape painters in the Americas. His impressive panoramic views of the Valley of Mexico—home of modern-day Mexico City—are painted with exquisite detail, honoring both the country’s rich historical heritage and the rapid modernization it underwent in the late 1800s.   

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José María Velasco. The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877. Oil on canvas, 161 × 228.5 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBAL, Mexico City. © Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Photo: Francisco Kochen. X12231.