Artist · 6 prints
José María Velasco Prints
About José María Velasco
José María Velasco was a Mexican landscape painter, born in Temascalcingo on 6 July 1840 and died in Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City, on 26 August 1912. He studied at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, where his teacher was the Italian landscape painter Eugenio Landesio. He later taught at the national school of fine arts, where Diego Rivera was among his students.
Velasco's great subject was the Valley of Mexico, the wide basin around the capital with its lakes and mountains. He painted it many times, most famously in View of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel (1877), and his work helped make the Mexican landscape a symbol of the nation. His science shows in his close study of the valley's rock formations: he was president of the Mexican Society of Natural History, and a salamander is named after him. In 2025 José María Velasco became the first Latin American artist given an exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
José María Velasco prints: reproductions of landscape paintings by the Mexican painter José María Velasco, dating from 1860 to the 1900s. The collection includes The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range (1875), The Metlac Ravine (1897), Oaxaca Cathedral (1887), Panzacola Bridge (1860) and The Mexico City Alameda (1866).
This selection follows Velasco across Mexico: the wide Valley of Mexico with its distant volcanoes, the deep green ravine at Metlac with a railway bridge, the colonial cathedral at Oaxaca, and shaded parks and bridges around the capital. It also includes The Great Comet of 1882, a night view of the comet over the valley. The palette is mostly soft greens, browns and clear blue skies.
The open, light-filled views suit living rooms, offices and dining rooms, and the wide valley panoramas work well above a sofa or sideboard. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
