Encarnación Ezcurra
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María de la Encarnación Ezcurra was an Argentine political activist, wife of Juan Manuel de Rosas.
Encarnación Ezcurra portrayed by García del Molino and Morel c. 1835. She wears a red ribbon on her hair, a symbol of the Federalist Party, as well as the fashionable peinetón.
Peinetón
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The peinetón is a large, decorative comb that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and became very fashionable among its female inhabitants as well as those of Montevideo, Uruguay between the late 18
Encarnación Ezcurra
…portrayed by García del Molino and Morel c. 1835. She wears a red ribbon on her hair, a symbol of the Federalist Party, as well as the fashionable peinetón. Born María de la Encarnación Ezcurra March 25, 1795 Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata Died October 20, 1838 (aged 43) Buenos Aires…
View of the Plaza de la Victoria—today the Plaza de Mayo—as depicted by Charles Pellegrini in 1831. The peinetón business was concentrated in the commercial area surrounding the square, which was the central axis of the city.
Charles Pellegrini. Mrs. Lucía Carranza de Rodríguez Orey, 1831.
Jacobo Fiorini. Mrs. Candelaria Somellera de Espinoza, c. 1830–1834.
An 1836 watercolor painting by Benoît Darondeau depicting a woman from Montevideo in ball dress.