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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 [+]
This emblematic picture is undoubtedly the best-known work on a social theme produced by Sorolla in his youth. It is also an especially good example of how fully the artist became involved in a genre [+]
Obsessed by his own image, Pinazo made many self-portraits. Here, the intense light streaming in from the left outlines his face with a marked chiaroscuro, heightened by the shadow cast by the hat. Th [+]
Following his arrival in Paris in 1894, Anglada-Camarasa became extremely interested in the city’s nightlife. The interior of this café-concert, one of the many to be found in the capital, is s [+]
A painter and teacher, Fernanda Francés enjoyed success and public recognition in the Spain of the Restoration. Specialising in flower painting and still lifes, and supported by clear critical [+]
Taking its cue from serialised fiction, the work narrates the return to her father’s home of a girl and her daughter, the fruit of an extra-marital relationship. Kneeling, she implores clemency from h [+]
Entre los numerosos retratos que realizó Menéndez Pidal se cuentan unos pocos autorretratos. En sentido estricto son solamente dos: uno, realizado en 1895 (colección particular, Madrid) y éste del Pra [+]
In 1861 the Galician painter Avendaño was jointly awarded the State travel grant for landscape painting, together with Martín Rico. In the last third of the century he thus lived and wor [+]
Fillol presents an uncompromising image of female prostitution that denounces human exploitation and the personal degradation of the victim. Although critics recognised the painting’s audacity and pra [+]
Desnudo de mujer es uno de los desnudos más atrevidos y eróticos que realizó el artista. La mujer aparece tendida, con las piernas hacia el espectador y los brazos detrás de la cabeza. La imagen front [+]
This is a cartoon for a tapestry to be hung over a window, with the figure of a Majo playing the guitar and a background of landscape with three other people. The resulting tapestry was intended for t [+]
In 1895, Elena Brockmann, a painter from Madrid who had studied first at the Academy of San Fernando and later under Joaquín Sorolla in Rome, became the first Spanish woman to submit a history [+]
Reproducción de un retrato pintado hacia 1740-45. La dama representada guarda cierto parecido con Luisa Isabel de Borbón (1727-1759), hija de Luis XV y María Leszczynska, esposa del infante Felipe de [+]
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 [+]
Although the ‘Moyano Law’ of 1857 established equal rights to education, schooling remained differentiated by sexes throughout the nineteenth century, and girls continued to have separate classes wher [+]
A tapestry cartoon with two chained dogs, two shotguns, a powder horn, and other hunting implements on a small hill, with a landscape in the background. The resulting tapestry was intended to hang ove [+]
Jiménez Aranda parece haber pintado del natural la escena que muestra en su tablita, en la que una modelo desnuda -físicamente muy próxima a la que debió posar también para su Esclava en venta (P6450) [+]
