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Bartholomé de Las Casas

About this painting

Constantino Brumidi, Bartholomé de Las Casas, 1876. United States Senate wing. Photograph by Architect of the Capitol.

Date created
1876
License
This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
Source
Original image housed by U.S. Capitol Complex

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Constantino Brumidi's 1876 painting, Bartholomé de Las Casas, depicting de las Casas sitting at a desk looking out a window. An American Indian stands behind him.

Constantino Brumidi’s 1876 painting, Bartholomé de Las Casas, depicts de las Casas and an American Indian in a room, viewed through an arched window. De las Casas is sitting at a desk in his priest’s robe with a pen in his right hand. The Indian stands behind him, wearing two feathers in his hair. Both men are looking out a window through which some other Indians are visible.

The painting hangs in the U.S. Senate wing of the Capitol.