Highlighting a work by Juan Luna in the coming Leon Gallery auction is an engaging catalogue essay by Lisa Nakpil illustrated w...

Highlighting a work by Juan Luna in the coming Leon Gallery auction is an engaging catalogue essay by Lisa Nakpil illustrated with a little known photograph of Juan Luna (much clearer than the one I have on file). Unfortunately, the auction catalog does not provide a background on the photo, taken in Paris in the 1880's, nor the identity of each individual in the photo who are:
(Topmost) Juan Luna, in ancient Roman toga;
Second row: (Left) the scholar and later Philippine Commissione...