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Francisco Fierro - A tortilla vendor balancing a tray on his head

A tortilla vendor balancing a tray on his head (ca. 1848)

Francisco Fierro (Peruvian, 1807–1879)
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Francisco Fierro

Francisco Fierro Palas, called "Pancho" Fierro was an Afro-Peruvian painter, known primarily for his costumbrista watercolors, which depict his country's life and customs.

He was baptized on 5 February 1809, the son of Nicolás Rodríguez del Fierro, a priest, and a slave from the household of Nicolás' father, Don Antonio, a Colonel in the Militia Battalion. He had been manumitted upon his birth, following a rule that said no son of a Spaniard could be born a slave, but was raised by his mother's family.

There is no record of him receiving any artistic training, so he was probably self-taught. He married in 1828 and made his living by painting signs, making posters for bullfights and molding statues for nativity scenes. He also painted wall murals, all of which have been destroyed or covered over.

Today, he is remembered for his watercolors, painted on sign cards, depicting everyday scenes from Peruvian life. He created over 1200 of them and their popularity produced many imitators. The writer Ricardo Palma owned a large collection which his heirs gave to the City of Lima. They are now on display at the Pinacoteca Municipal Ignacio Merino. The captions were provided by Palma, as Fierro may have been illiterate. Other large collections were acquired by the French painter Léonce Angrand and the Russian ethnographer Leopold von Schrenck, whose collection is now at the "Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography" in the Kunstkamera, Saint Petersburg.

According to an obituary in El Comercio, he died of paralysis in a hospital on Peruvian Independence Day.

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Two musicians and a man carrying on his head a rooster in cage

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Two woman wearing the saya attending mass (ca. 1848)

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Two fortune tellers (ca. 1848)

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Two woman wearing the saya viewed in profile (ca. 1848)

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A woman wearing the saya standing in profile (ca. 1848)

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‘Bolero’ Indian Man with Staff

‘Bolero’ Indian Man with Staff (ca. 1850)

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A woman carrying a vessel on her head and a child on her back

A woman carrying a vessel on her head and a child on her back (ca. 1848)

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Indian Woman Smoking Cigar in Front of Breadstand (ca. 1850)

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Indian Woman Selling Vegetables

Indian Woman Selling Vegetables (ca. 1850)

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Boy on Mule driving another Mule loaded with Hay

Boy on Mule driving another Mule loaded with Hay (ca. 1850)

Francisco Fierro (Peruvian, 1807–1879)
A man riding a mule, his whip raised, another mule loaded with grass alongside

A man riding a mule, his whip raised, another mule loaded with grass alongside (ca. 1848)

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A soldier on horseback holding a rope that secures an enslaved indigenous man who is balancing a basket on his head

A soldier on horseback holding a rope that secures an enslaved indigenous man who is balancing a basket on his head (ca. 1848)

Francisco Fierro (Peruvian, 1807–1879)
A woman wearing the saya standing in profile

A woman wearing the saya standing in profile (ca. 1848)

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A woman confessing to a priest

A woman confessing to a priest (ca. 1848)

Francisco Fierro (Peruvian, 1807–1879)
A woman wearing the saya and manto standing in profile

A woman wearing the saya and manto standing in profile (ca. 1848)

Francisco Fierro (Peruvian, 1807–1879)
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