The Guadarrama from the Plantío de los Infantes

1910. Oil on canvas.
Room 060A

Madrid´s massive mountain range, the Sierra Madrileña, is depicted by Beruete from the outskirts of Madrid. This natural element was the painter´s favorite for his mountain landscapes. The work shows how this natural space was reclaimed as an axis for the regenerationalist politics that filled public life at the turn of the ninteenth to twentieth centuries. Understood as “the backbone of Spain,” this mountain range symbolically incarnated the values defended by the Generation of ´98. The intellectual value of this painting is accompanied by Beruete´s considerable pictorial quality. An essential characteristic is the use of a horizon that closes the composition in a manner similar to how other European lanscape painters were working at that time. The use of rapid brushstrokes and a limited palette are technical values that link this work to Velasquez, who use the same mountain range as the background for some of his portraits.

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Inventory number: P005552
Author: Aureliano de Beruete
Title: The Guadarrama from the Plantío de los Infantes
Date: 1910
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Width: 101 cm; Height: 67 cm
Provenance: Gift of Aureliano de Beruete y Moret for the Museo de Arte Moderno, 1913
Entry date: 1971

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