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Utilising an almost photographic, frontal composition that enhances the naturalism of the image, Mariano Nani here depicts with great descriptive effectiveness the catch from a day’s hunting, which has just been tied with a piece of rope and suspended from nails hammered into the wall. We see a large hare, with white and hazelnut-coloured fur, hanging upside down by one of its hind legs, to allow
The child in the portrait appears to be the Infanta María Isabel (1743-1749), the third daughter of Charles of Bourbon and Maria Amalia of Saxony, whose birth was received with special joy after the death of her two elder siblings. For this reason, she was portrayed on several occasions. She appears here as an heir being crowned by an angelic trumpeter.
Born in 1786 in New Spain, María Francisca de la Gándara y Cardona was the widow of General Fñelix María Calleja del Rey, the last Spanish Viceroy of Mexico. She died in Valencia in 1855. She sits across from the viewer and looks directly at him. In her right hand she holds a breviary, marking the page where she intends to continue her interrupted reading. Her left hand
Daughter of Philip V and Isabella Farnese, the sitter was born in 1718. At the age of four her marriage to Louis XV was arranged, but this was broken off when she was seven for reasons of international politics. In 1729 María Ana married José, Prince of Brazil and future King of Portugal. Largillierre specialised in portraiture. He painted the present canvas in Paris, using a virtuos
Vernet, who studied and lived in Rome between 1734 and 1753, offers a pre-Romantic vision of the imposing landscape near the city of Caprarola, located in the Cimini Hills in Lazio. The activities of the small figures, one of them fishing, convey the tranquillity of rural life. In 1814 the canvas was in the “green fireplace room” in the Royal Palace in Madrid.
During Christ’s ascent to Calvary, a woman known as la hemorroísa (literally, the menstruating woman), offered him a white cloth, which absorbed the image of his bloodstained face. This miraculous image and the woman involved came to be known as The Veronica. Here, Amigoni, an outstanding Venetian rococo painter who arrived in Spain in 1748, presents the sacred cloth alongside various putti
Vernet was one of the great landscape painters of his day. Painted during his time in Italy, the artist makes use of the picturesque nature of the location to create a fantastical scene in which the figures are subsidiary to the monumental arch of rocks with its theatrical appearance.
Cuadro de la serie con escenas de la vida de san Benito que adornaban el claustro del monasterio de San Martín. Felipe de Castro (ca. 1750/1764) se limitó a señalar que "las pinturas del claustro son de mano de Fray Juan Ricci" y Ponz (V, 1776, 5.a división, párrafo 15) que "las [pinturas] de la Vida del mismo Santo en el claustro son de Fr. Juan Rizi, Religioso de la Orden; y de su misma mano son
Una inscripción en su reverso vincula este óleo sobre cobre de pequeñas dimensiones con la pintora Caterina Cherubini Preciado, esposa del también pintor Francisco Preciado de la Vega desde 1750 y junto a él residente en Roma durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII.Caterina fue hija, como recuerda Urrea, de Giuseppe Cherubini, nacido a su vez de Giovanni Valentino Cherubini, ambos establecidos en
Corrado Giaquinto had frequent contacts with Spain as of 1735 or earlier. But the death of Jacopo Amigoni in 1752 led to his being summoned to Madrid the next year. During his stay in the Spanish Court, he earned the highest honors given to a painter in that era. He became First Painter to the Court in August 1753 and director of the Academy of San Fernando that December. His main mission was the
Diogenes of Sinope (ca.412 - 323BC) was a Greek Cynic philosopher. He is depicted here with his lighted lantern, which he used during the day in his search for an “honest man” in the streets of Athens, indicating his general contempt for humanity. The figure’s meditative expression is comparable to depictions of saints and apostles from the previous century. Images of this type are characteristic
Claude Joseph Vernet, the most renowned eighteenth-century French landscape painter and veduttista (view painter), was known for his landscapes, seascapes, and views of Rome and Naples. Characterised by dramatic or poetic representations of storms and other atmospheric phenomena at different times of day, these works were enlivened by scenes from everyday life.Based in Rome between 1734 and 1752,
An in-depth study of Joaquín Inza is yet to be conducted that would allow us to gauge his role and importance in the panorama of Spanish art in the second half of the eighteenth century. Inza is known for his portraits of the royal family and of aristocrats and intellectuals from the period, and is now regarded as an estimable and discrete painter with a precise, austere style, although som
The eldest son of Louis XIV and the Spanish Infanta María Teresa of Austria, Louis was born in 1661, receiving the title of Dauphin as heir to the French throne. Married to Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, their son, the future Philip V of Spain (born in 1683), inherited from his father the so-called Dauphin’s Treasure, now in the Museo del Prado. Louis died in 1711.This canvas is one of a g
