Made of plaster of Paris, it was created during Rizal’s isolation and exile in distant Dapitan in Zamboanga, months before he would meet his martyrdom on Bagumbayan Field or today’s Luneta.

Made during his exile in Dapitan in Zamboanga del Norte, Josephine Sleeping, dubbed Rizal’s Mona Lisa, is believed to be a memento intended to be kept close to its creator. It was presumably ...