Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785 – 1802 Celebrating the New Orleans Tricentennial

Josef Salazar y Mendoza, Don Antonio Mendez (1750-1829) and His Family, oil on canvas, 36 x 49 in, 1795, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Patrick

On View March 8 – September 2

Presenting Sponsors:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Patrick

Contributing Sponsors
RosaMary Foundation

Supporting Sponsors
Katherine Patrick Coleman
Neal Auction Company
Roger Ogden and Ken Barnes
Gregory Holt and Lucy Burnett
Karoline H. Patrick
Prentiss C. Patrick
Robert J. Patrick, Jr.
Daniel Rodgers

Host Committee
Alex Beard Studio
Anonymous in honor of Thomas, David and Angelica Urquhart, Dr. Dow, Gen. Wilkinson and their colonial friends
Sally Edwards in memory of Ursula D’Aquin Werner
Gervais F. Favrot
Dr. Jerry and Carolyn Fortino
Monica Ann Frois and Eve Barrie Masinter
Holden Family Collection
Marcia Holmes
Benjamin Lowry and Shelly Gallender
Louise H. Moffett Family Foundation
Bruce and Marian Margetson
Shirley R. Masinter
Peter Patout
Jeanie and Claiborne Perrilliat
Anne and Ronald Pincus
Peter Politzer and Jane S. Murray
Cassandra Sharpe Look and Richard Look
Jane and William Sizeler
Dr. Nia K. Terezakis
Lucy and David Thomas

In conjunction with the Tricentennial celebration of New Orleans, Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans tells the story of Josef Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (c. 1750-1802), whose career spanned the second half of the Spanish administration of New Orleans. Through a re-examination of about 30 of his most pertinent works, a view of Spanish colonial New Orleans is achieved. His oeuvre is further contextualized in relation to works and other historical artifacts reflective of the city as a site of mobility and transatlantic artistic exchange.