José Joaquín Magón
José Joaquín Magón was a late eighteenth-century Mexican painter from Puebla de los Angeles.
Little is known of his personal life, but he was a well-known artist who produced a large number of extant religious paintings and portraits of high ecclesiastics in Puebla.
One set of his casta paintings is signed and the other is identified as Magón's by María Concepción García Sáiz.
The cabinet attracted notice of travelers, including Antonio Ponz (1725-1792), who remarked on it in his publication Viaje de España.
However, these descriptions do not necessarily reflect the views of Magón himself, as he appears to have left a blank space for the commentary to be written by someone else, or to add himself under guidance from a third party.
[Del Español y la Yndia nace el Mestizo, por lo común, humilde, quieto, y sencillo] (image in this article) II.
The pride and sharp wits of the Mulatto woman are instilled by her white father [Blanco] and black mother.
[Español, y Mulata, ser, y doctrina dan conforme a su genio a la Morisca].
[Albino y Española, Los que producen de torna atrás, en figura, genio, y costumbres].
The Calpamulato born of Mulatto father and Indian mother has a wild temperament and is strong, broad and short.
[De Collote, y Morisca, el Abarazado nace, y se inclina a burlas, y chascos].
[Tente en el ayre, nace (ingerto malo) de Torna atrás adusta, y Albarazado].
