Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the festivals of the court. His name, Senor, was Don Simon Peyrens; and the Viceroy his patron—in whose suite he had come from Spain expressly to beautify the Palace with his paintings—was Don Gaston de Peralta, Mar¬ ques de Falces: who was the third Viceroy of the Province, being the successor to the good Don Luis de Velasco when that most worthy gentleman ceased to be a Viceroy and became an angel in the year 1564. Well, Senor, it happened some years later—in the time of Don Martin Enriquez de Almanza, the fourth Viceroy, with whom Peyrens re¬ mained in favor—that the Chapter of the Cathedral, desiring to make splendid the Altar del Perdon, offered in competition to all the painters of Mexico a prize for the most beau¬ tiful picture of Our Lady of Mercy: which picture was to be placed in the centre of that altar and to be the chief glory of it. And, thereupon, all the painters of Mexico, save only Peyrens, entered into that competition with a reverent and an eager joy. And then it was, Senor, that Peyrens made plain the wickedness that was in him by his irreverent blasphemies. At a banquet at the Palace a [31 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
