A missing masterpiece of 18th-century painting, lost for more than 100 years, has apparently been hanging in a Los Angeles home since the mid-1950s.
Nicknamed “Española” — Spanish girl — after the primped and powdered child that is the painting's focus, the lost work is from a brilliant set of 16 paintings by Miguel Cabrera (circa 1715-1768), the greatest painter of his age in Mexico. The paintings are believed to have left the country two years before the artist's death, but the whereabouts of Española has long been unknown.
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