[2] Morel entered the art school of the University of Buenos Aires in 1827, studying under the Swiss José Guth, and graduating in 1830 at the age of seventeen.

He became one of the masters of this medium, with works that excel in composition such as Buenos Aires Cathedral, Startled Horse, Cuirassiers and Cavalry.

That city was going through a cultural revival at that time, home to artists who had left France after the restoration of the absolute monarchy, encouraged by the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

[3] Morel returned to Buenos Aires in 1844, and in 1845 published his famous album of lithographs called "Manners and Customs of the Río de la Plata".

She had been running a bakery in Buenos Aires to make a living after the murder of her husband, and had moved to Quilmes in 1853 after his expropriated property had been returned.

His most famous work is a series of 24 plates called "Manners and Customs of the Rio de la Plata", published in 1845.

[1] Morel illustrated the streets of Buenos Aires, the grocery stores, the gauchos and other characters from the early years of Argentina.

The genius of Morel, for the first time in Argentine, was to leave the picturesque tradition of European travelers, some of whom were technically more gifted than him, to uncover the essence of the Pampean environment.