Furniture and paintings in the houses of the marqueses de Santa Cruz de Marcenado (Asturias) between the 17th and 18th centuries

Using unpublished archival documents, the author studies and analyses in detail the collections of furniture and paintings left at the time of their deaths by Sebastian Vigil de Quinones y la Rua and his daughter Jacinta in their houses in the town of Pola de Siero and the capital, Oviedo (Asturias). Both furniture and paintings were destroyed -or perhaps dispersed- during the Napoleonic Wars, when la Rim's house in Oviedo was repeatedly sacked. Nevertheless, the inventories here transcribed perfectly demonstrate the wealth displayed by the Asturian nobility of the period, which can be verified by comparing these inventories with those of other families related to the Vigil de Quinones, for example the Miranda, marqueses de Valdecarzana.