About This Object
During this flight from Tenochtitlán, Cortés and his men encounter Cuitláhuac, the new Mexica leader of the Aztec empire, the brother of Moctezuma, who attacks the invaders.
* Currently on Exhibit
Second half of the seventeenth century Mexico. Oil on canvas. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (95)