Carta para Agnes Egerton por E. Pingret
Daniel Lezama
Letter to Agnes Egerton by E. Pingret
In this painting, Lezama alludes to the murder of Agnes Egerton and her couple, the English painter Daniel Thomas Egerton, which took place in 1842 in the neighborhood of Tacubaya, then on the outskirts of Mexico City. Lezama’s fictional interpretation depicts an indigenous couple—portrayed in the style of Édouard Pingret’s costumbrista images—who have discovered the corpse of the young woman, pregnant and assaulted.
With the Valley of Mexico in the background, the two naked youths hold open the body’s legs; in a secondary plane, a maguey flower seems to bloom from the sex of the dead woman. The series Cartas de viaje explores chronicles of Mexican territory—and their symbolic implications—from the perspective of foreign travelers.
DANIEL LEZAMA (1968)
Carta para Agnes Egerton por E. Pingret, 2010
Letter to Agnes Egerton by E. Pingret
From the series Cartas de viaje [Travel Letters]
Oil on canvas
Acquisition with funds from the Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación, 2012
