Nuévalos (Aragon)
Ca. 1856. Oil on paper attached to cardboard.On display elsewhere
The painting depicts landscape of Nuévalos (Zaragoza), a town located at the confluence of the rivers Piedra and Ortiz. The Monasterio de Piedra Natural Park is located within its municipal boundaries.
Diagonally from the left of the painting, the small roof of a rustic building partly covered with growth. Behind and less defined, a section of an old walled construction, partly silhouetted against a mountainous formation and partly against the sky. Some scrubland appears to the right of the painting, where the artist plays with lights and shadows to mark surfaces and volumes on the ground, rocks and bushes. Sketched sky, with scratches of fillings that reveal a paper support completely oxidized by a heavy concentration of glue of animal origin (In: Paintings of the 19th in the Museo del Prado: General Catalogue, Madrid: Museo del Prado, 2015, p. 251 and Gutiérrez Márquez, A.; Carlos de Haes in the Museo del Prado 1826–1898, Madrid: Museo del Prado, 2002, p. 62).
