San Isidro, on the Buenos Aires coast of the Río de la Plata, has a particular charm that is well worth a visit, even more so these days to enjoy one of its museums, the Historical Municipal Brigadier Juan Martín de Pueyrredón (1776 - 1850).
Located in what was the farm of that patriot, the main construction houses different rooms - it preserves its architecture from the end of the 18th century - where until December 3, an attractive exhibition referring to the work and life of whoever was the son of the owner of the house, the notable painter Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823 - 1870), the most qualified native artist of his century in Argentina.
The exhibition - a tribute to the two hundred years of PP's birth - is a crossroads between his paintings, the photography that emerged just a few years before starting his artistic career and different personal objects of his own and those portrayed by him. . This dialogue enriches the visit and provokes a special empathy with the non-academic public.
In the showcase the theme focuses on the back and forth between painting and photography with the portraits of Hersilia Otamendi de Pinto in both disciplines: a watercolor on paper, by P. Pueyrredón, and two photographs in carte de visite format. In addition, the garment that Doña Hersilia used when posing is exhibited.
Prilidiano Pueyrredón painted rural scenes, portraits and even nudes that scandalized in his time; described years later as “libertine paintings” by Eduardo Schiaffino himself, founder and director of the National Museum of Fine Arts. In the rooms of his father's farm we can see around thirty of his works distributed in different thematic axes.
The exhibition is presented accompanied by an 84-page catalog with texts by Eleonora Jaureguiberry, Cecilia Lebrero, Roberto Amigo, Laura Malosetti Costa, Patricio López Méndez, Carlos Vertanessian, María Paula Zingoni and Gabriel Romero.
The exhibition can be visited on weekends, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pueyrredón Museum, Rivera Indarte 48, San Isidro.