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In 1883 Rico received the most significant commissions of his career: two views of Venice for the Marquis of Casa Riera and this panoramic view of Paris for Josefa de Manzanedo e Intentas, II Marchion [+]
This work shows politician, poet, playwright and tutor to Queen Elizabeth II, Manuel José Quntana (Madrid, April 11, 1772- Madrid, March 11, 1857) on the day of his coronation in the Senate as [+]
This is one of the few winter scenes painted by Hendrick Dubbels still preserved today. In the Museum`s catalogues it is described as a scene with skaters, although only three of the many characters d [+]
A young woman seems to gaze dreamily at a canvas on an easel, over which a large cloth has been partially draped, and at a sheaf of prints on a stool. The Japanesestyle clothes, the bright colours and [+]
This work belongs to the so-called peasant interiors, one of the new genres of painting that emerged and developed in Flanders and Holland in the early seventeenth century. In Houbraken and in early i [+]
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 [+]
La composición, en origen inscrita en un óvalo que aún puede apreciarse, está ocupada casi en su totalidad por la figura del santo, quien sostiene entre sus brazos al Niño Jesús y una rama de azucenas [+]
Pinazo’s fascination with childhood led him to paint several pictures of his two children, in which he captured the freshness and spontaneity of the child’s world. Here, his son Ignacio, the artist’s [+]
Double portraits of this type, which were common in the mid-nineteenth century, were generally painted when the son or daughter was presented in society. The mother, depicted as seated, represented an [+]
The most famous of Esquivel´s pieces and a leading work of Spanish Romanticism. Considered the maximum graphical testimony to the intellectual atmosphere during the reign of Isabel II (1830 - 1904), t [+]
La obra corresponde al primer periodo pictórico de Théo Van Rysselberghe, en el que los pintores que más admiraba constituían su guía para la realización de sus obras. Entre ellos se encontraban su pr [+]
María de la Concepción Serrano y Domínguez was the eldest child of General Serrano, the Duke of Torre. She was born in Havana in 1860, which her father was Commander in Chief of C [+]
Aline Masson, the painter´s model, contemplates the signet -sealed envelope she holds in her right hand, which presumably arrived with the bouquet of flowers she holds in her left. The blue robe with [+]
Painted shortly before he permanently settled in Madrid, this self-portrait shows Simonet engaged in painting. Visible in the background is the portrait of his father. The figure of the artist and the [+]
This painting entered the Prado as an original by Philips de Koninck (1619-1688), though in the 1873 catalogue it is attributed to Salomon Koninck (1609-1656). Adecade later, in the 1885 edition, Bred [+]
Simonet painted this portrait in Malaga on his return from a study period in Rome and following the success of Flevit super illam (1892). The image conveys the artist’s esteem for his father, a land r [+]
A front view of a girl with a tambourine in her left hand. She holds a doll with her right arm. In keeping with his interest in children´s portraits, Pinazo captures a very familiar atmosphere here, m [+]
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a significant number of Spanish writers and artists viewed themselves as heirs to the rich heritage of the Golden Age realist tradition, particularly the [+]
