Mi Novia by Juan Luna

A painting by Juan Luna that Wikipedia says is rumoured to be cursed, though Esquire Philippines tells its curse story about a Luna work titled Portrait of a Lady.

Juan Luna killed his wife and his mother-in-law at Villa Dupont. On 8 February 1893 he was acquitted on the grounds that the killings were a crime of passion. Wikipedia says the "unwritten law" of the time forgave men who killed wives they held to be unfaithful. Luna was ordered to pay damages to the Pardo de Tavera family, and five days later he left for Madrid with Antonio, his brother, and Andrés, his son.

Wikipedia attaches the curse to Mi Novia. Its article on the painting says rumour holds it is haunted and cursed because Luna had it in progress when he committed the killings. Esquire Philippines tells its curse story about a Luna painting it calls Portrait of a Lady. In Behind the Curse of Juan Luna's Portrait of a Lady (2015), Jerome Gomez writes that nobody knows where that portrait's curse came from, and wonders aloud whether Luna cursed it or whether the portrait was at Villa Dupont when the killings happened, before calling his own questions ridiculous.

Mi Novia appears in a 2004 lecture by Eric Torres for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts with no mention of a curse. Torres holds it up as a showcase of Luna's most academic manner: a crowd-pleasing work that Luna showed at an exhibition outside the competition.