José María Velasco Gómez Obregón

1840–1912 · Mexico

José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, (6 July 1840 – 26 August 1912) was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. Wikipedia

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Works

“El Valle de México”, 1877 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“Gran Cometa de 1882”, 1910 — Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura
“Oaxaca Cathedral”, 1887 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“The Metlac Ravine”, 1893 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“The Mexico City Alameda”, 1866 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“Cardón”, 1887
“Lumen en coelo”, 1892
“Vistas del Valle de México”
“Autoretrato”, 1877
“Ahuehuete”, 1870 — Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
“Valley of Mexico”, 1875 — Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
“Scene from the Quaternary upper Paleolithic Period” — Museo Nacional de Arte
“Flora and Fauna from the Miocene Cenozoic Period” — Museo Nacional de Arte
“The San Ángel Goatherd”, 1863 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range”, 1875 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl”, 1850
“Atlantic Ocean”, 1889 — Museo Nacional de Arte
“Pirámide del Sol”, 1878
“Valle de Mexico”, 1910
“Autoretrato”, 1860