Episode after Trafalgar (sketch)

Ca. 1862. Oil on canvas.
Room 075

This is the sketch for the artist’s foremost painting, shown in this room. The importance of French models in his work is appreciable, particularly the influence of Thomas Couture, under whom he trained in Paris, and his procedure of privileging masses of colour over the definition of outline. Other clear influences are Géricault and Delacroix.

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Episode after Trafalgar

Oil on canvas, 1862

Francisco Sans Cabot

Inventory number: P007962
Author: Francisco Sans Cabot
Title: Episode after Trafalgar (sketch)
Date: Ca. 1862
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 32 cm; Width: 40 cm
Provenance: Acquired from Alcalá Subastas, Madrid, 2007
Entry date: 2007

Bibliography +

Museo Nacional del Prado, Memoria de Actividades 2007, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2008, pp. 34.

Reyero, Carlos, Martí Alsina y el realismo que viene de París 1860-1880, Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado - Galaxia Gutenberg, Madrid, 2014, pp. 35-56 [40].

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado. Catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 539.