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This portrait of Jaime Girona, a politician and financier from Barcelona, is of a typology that the artist repeated frequently in portraits of the bourgeoisie in the 1850s, and it is perhaps his work [+]
This portrait provides exceptional testimony to Federico de Madrazo´s fully mature style, which made him the greatest Spanish portrait artist of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Painted a [+]
Retrato de busto en el que aparece el pintor retratado a los 28 años, cuando ya gozaba de una gran amistad con Federico de Madrazo. De frente, ligeramente girado hacia la izquierda, con lentes, amplio [+]
Retratado a sus 54 años, de busto y ante un fondo neutro, viste con indumentaria doméstica, sujeta su corbata con un alfiler y aparece cubierto por un grueso gabán. De gesto enérgico y temperamental, [+]
Este lienzo es una de las obras fundamentales de la pintura del Romanticismo español, así como el primer cuadro importante de este género realizado por Federico de Madrazo a lo largo de su fecundísima [+]
In the mid-nineteenth century Federico de Madrazo produced some of the most successful portraits of the Spanish bourgeoisie during the reign of Isabel II (1833-68), presenting them with the opulence t [+]
Concepción Remisa de Moret was the wife of Segismundo Moret y Quintana, a famous nineteenth-century Spanish writer, politician and landowner whose portrait -also by Madrazo- is in the Prado Mus [+]
Sobre un fondo neutro matizado desde el negro al verde azulado, se ilumina por la izquierda y desde arriba el rostro del pintor, recortado casi de perfil con abundante y rubia cabellera, ancha frente, [+]
According to the inscription on the right, this is a portrait of the painter and friend of Madrazo, Eduardo Rosales. The detailed rendering of the face in profile stands out against the neutral green [+]
The writer Ventura de la Vega (1807-1865), a leading light in Madrid’s literary and artistic circles, was a close friend of the painter. In this portrait, whilst conveying the sitter’s unstudied elega [+]
The sitter, a Monarchist writer, an excellent horsewoman and a friend of the artist, is seated in a fine armchair, her figure brightly lit in the shadowy room. This appealing portrait has a decidedly [+]
A full-length portrait of Federico Flórez as a boy, wearing the uniform of the School of Noble Students of Madrid. This work is especially significant in Madrazo´s oeuvre, as it is one of the f [+]
Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fievé, eldest son of the neoclassical painter, Juan Antonio de Ribera, was also a painter and a friend of Federico de Madrazo, who made this portrait while both lived in [+]
In this skilfully painted portrait, Madrazo combines the model’s innate elegance and restraint with the naturalness of her gesture as she puts on her gloves. The principal light source emphasises the [+]
Gaspar Sensi Baldachi, litógrafo y pintor de origen italiano, discípulo de Tomasso Minardi cuando contaba más de treinta años de edad se trasladó a Madrid y en esta ciudad estableció su residencia pri [+]
This portrait of the wife of the banker Henry O’Shea reveals the British influence on Madrazo’s fully romantic period. Her social position is indicated by the quality of the fabrics, laces and jewels, [+]
Louise Amour Marie de Bouillé, the wife of the French ambassador in Madrid, is registered as a copyist at the Museo del Prado from November 1871 onwards. It must have been around then that she [+]
This young aristocrat, portrayed in three-quarter length, stands posed before the viewer wearing a magnificent black satin and velvet dress trimmed with lace and ribbons, a close-fitting bodice and a [+]
