On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P04485
- Author
- Domingo Marqués, Francisco (Spanish)
- Title
- A Rest during the Hunt
- Chronology
- 1901
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 54 cm x 42 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- MUSEO ARTE MODERNO
- Procedence
- Museum of Modern Art
Francisco Domingo approaches the
work of Diego Velasquez (1500-1600)
in a free reinterpretation of the
human types painted by that artist
from Seville.
A group of hunters take a rest
during a hunt. All of them are
dressed in seventeenth-century
style. The group of three men at
the left of the composition recalls
the gentlemen in Velasquez's works,
and the composition of the dark
horse held by a hunter, on the
right, is directly taken from that
artist's Surrender of Breda
(P1172).
Despite these allusions to the
master whose work Gimeno knew well
through the Prado Museum, this
canvas seems to give more
importance to the lush landscape
than to the human figures.
This painting was acquired by the
State for the Museum of Modern Art
by Royal Order of 1919.
