The Arrival of Dom João VI to Bahia

Composition in tones earthy, red, orange, yellow, blue, green, gray, white and black. Smooth texture. It depicts the royal family earthying in Bahia. Cortege taking ahead D. João VI, Carlota Joaquina and Pedro being received by a noble and religious, surrounded by popular and soldiers, seeing the background blue sea with caravels and Bahia lanscape. On the left, popular grouped in a kind of dock where you can see part of a caravel aportada, highlighting the figure of a Bahian woman with board head watching the arrival of procession taking ahead of the Royal Family. The crowd succeeds in perspective for background. In the center of the composition, tall masts with different colors flags flying. On the right grouped and little more in the background crowd, part of the city at the foot of a hill highlighting a church. In the background, blue sea with three caravels, diagonally from the left to the right and front to back along the skyline. Blue sky with some clouds.