Portrait of a Manileña

Rodrigo T. Marasigan · 1935

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

20 × 28 in

Year

1935

Price

₱120,000

About this Work

A commanding portrait of a young Filipina woman dressed in the traditional baro't saya, her gaze steady and proud. Marasigan's influence from European academicism blends seamlessly with deeply Filipino sensibility — the subject's mestiza features and confident bearing speak to an emerging national identity.