The writer Pelegrín García Cadena

Ca. 1870. Oil on canvas.
Not on display

Pelegrín García Cadena was born in Valencia, where he studied a law degree. It was probably there he became a close friend of the painter. For a period, he was editor of the ‘Diaro mercantil’. In Madrid, he obtained a place in the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, thanks to the mediation of Campoamor. Notwithstanding his work as a theatre critic in ‘La ilustración española y americana’, he was fundamentally a writer of novels, short stories and melodramatic novels, such as Homemade art (El arte casero) or Stories for everyone (Historias para todos). He died in Madrid in 1882. In this effigy, he seems to be about 45 years old. The portrait could therefore date from around 1870. Indeed, its execution conforms to his work from that period.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Maestros de la pintura valenciana del siglo XIX en el Museo, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Autoridad Portuaria, 1997, p.142

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Inventory number: P004487
Author: Francisco Domingo Marqués
Title: The writer Pelegrín García Cadena
Date: Ca. 1870
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Width: 50 cm; Height: 63.5 cm
Provenance: Acquisition for the Museo de Arte Moderno, 1942

Bibliography +

Un siglo de arte español (1856-1956) Primer Centenario de las Exposiciones Nacinales de Bellas Artes., Ministerio de Educación Nacional, Madrid, 1956, pp. 96,99.

De la Puente, Joaquín, Casón del Buen Retiro. Catálogo de las pinturas del siglo XIX, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1985, pp. 59.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Maestros de la pintura valenciana del siglo XIX en el Museo, Museo Nacional del Prado, Autoridad Portuaria, Madrid, 1997, pp. 142.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 150.