Landscape with a Lake
1891. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
A lake landscape in which water occupies the entire foreground can be seen. In the background, next to the tree-lined shore, there is a boat from which two people appear to be fishing. Islets can be seen little further to the left. The vegetation is reflected in the mirror-like water, allowing the painter’s play with the light and the dark colours, and the wide sky is full of clouds. This seems to be a composition by Carlos de Haes, of whom the artist was a disciple. The painting was even sent to the Spanish Parliament as a work by this artist, since, in the record of delivery of this work and another by Carlos de Haes to the then Spanish Parliament by the now dissolved Museo de Arte Moderno, both are mentioned as two landscapes by the latter painter. The work was deposited in the Congress of Deputies, Madrid.
Orihuela Maeso, Mercedes y de Castro Sánchez, Mª Teresa, Presencia del Museo del Prado en el Congreso de los Diputados. Revista de las Cortes Generales, Congreso de los Diputados, 2008, p.443-444
