Work by Agostino Brunias acquired by the Brooklyn Museum

6 January 2011

Agostino Brunias's A Group of Creole Women and their Servants in Dominica was purchased by the Brooklyn Museum in December 2010 and entered the collection early the following year.

Agostino Brunias's A Group of Creole Women and their Servants in Dominica was purchased by the Brooklyn Museum in December 2010 and entered the collection early the following year.

"We have a large West Indian community," said Richard Aste, then the museum's curator of European art. "When I saw it, it just screamed Brooklyn. We were looking for something from the 18th century, and we didn't have anything like this."

The acquisition was widely reported, including in the New York Times.