Unknown. <em>Four Inca Kings: Tupac Yupanqui, Huayna Capac, Huascar Inca, Atahuallpa</em>, early 19th century. Oil on canvas, 7 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (19.7 x 57.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Philip Ainsworth Means in memory of Philip Ainsworth Means
, 47.119 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.119_PS6.jpg)

Unknown. Four Inca Kings: Tupac Yupanqui, Huayna Capac, Huascar Inca, Atahuallpa, early 19th century. Oil on canvas, 7 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (19.7 x 57.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Philip Ainsworth Means in memory of Philip Ainsworth Means , 47.119 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.119_PS6.jpg)

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As you may have read in the label, portraits of the Inca kings were important things to own and display for indigenous people of Peru. A version like this would have been easier to hide during the outlawing of displaying Inca portraits.

The text, in Spanish, describes the Inca empire. The style of the paintings is European-inspired. They can be compared to religious paintings of Biblical figures. The artist who painted these likely also painted for churches in Peru.

Four Inca Kings: Tupac Yupanqui, Huayna Capac, Huascar Inca, Atahuallpa

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This fragment of an Inca king portrait series was commissioned by the Guarachi family, one of the most prominent indigenous families of viceregal Peru. The domestic display of paintings of the Inca rulers was outlawed in the viceroyalty between 1781 and 1821, following a series of native revolts. After 1824, the portraits acquired a new significance in post-independence Peru as national icons.

ARTIST Unknown

MEDIUM Oil on canvas

Place Made: Cuzco, Peru

DATES early 19th century

DIMENSIONS 7 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (19.7 x 57.8 cm) Inscription Panels: 8 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (21 x 10.8 cm) frame: 27 7/8 x 35 7/8 x 1 3/8 in. (70.8 x 91.1 x 3.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS American Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 47.119

CREDIT LINE Gift of Mrs. Philip Ainsworth Means in memory of Philip Ainsworth Means

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CAPTION Unknown. Four Inca Kings: Tupac Yupanqui, Huayna Capac, Huascar Inca, Atahuallpa, early 19th century. Oil on canvas, 7 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (19.7 x 57.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Philip Ainsworth Means in memory of Philip Ainsworth Means , 47.119 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.119_PS6.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 47.119_PS6.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2012

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