La señoraza Painting

"La Señoraza" is a legend of the Chilean town of Laja, as well as the most famous lagoon in the town. The story has many versions, but the most accepted are 3. The first is due to the death of a woman who was murdered, who was thrown into the Laja lagoon by her executioners. The second is because Don Pedro de Valdivia, who sees Doña Inés de Suárez bathing naked under the stars and in the darkness of a warm night in the waters of the lake, Don Pedro sighed deeply in love with that forbidden love and said Inés del My soul, you are a Lady. And the third is a young woman, daughter of a man of power and land who was very cruel to her workers. A single and lonely woman, who to escape the daily routine, went to the lagoon, hence the name in her honor. Whatever the truth, this painting encompasses part of that legend.