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Fortuny’s sudden death left this painting unfinished, yet it remains one of his finest pieces, and the maximum expression of the audacious pictorial modernity that characterizes his mature work.The two children that appear in this canvas are the artist’s own son and daughter, Mariano and María Luisa. They rest on the long divan in the Japanese Room at Villa Arata, the Fortuny family’s summe
The sketch, almost schematic character of this composition makes this one of the most attractive bullfighting scenes ever painted by Fortuny. It offers a panoramic view of a bullring -probably in Madrid- in which the powerful contrast of light between the part in the sun and the part in the shade is outstanding. The painter treats the hustle and bustle of the spectators as an undefined mass, with
This drawing shows Fortuny’s fondness for the architecture and winding alleyways of the Albaicín, one of Granada’s landmark districts. The narrowness of the streets provided the painter with an excellent opportunity to study perspective, aided by the line running along the centre of many of its cobbled streets -channels that carried water from the Arab cisterns at the top of the hill.
