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 [+]
El palentino Martínez del Rincón desarrolló una carrera marcada por las reminiscencias de un romanticismo tardío. Combinó su interés por los asuntos orientalistas con la pintura de tipos femeninos, qu [+]
A woman paints energetically à plein air in a fashionable resort on the Normandy coast. Although it cannot be ruled out that this is a portrait of a real woman artist, the ambiguous characteris [+]
This is one of Meifrén’s views of Paris, where he spent various periods from the late 1870s onwards. It depicts a café on the Place de Clichy near Montmartre. It predates the depictions [+]
The family of this celebrated Madrid artist was originally French, and his own aesthetic roots lie outside Spain. In this self-portrait we see him sitting in a chair with cabriole legs, dressed in sum [+]
In a space half-way between a private living-room and an artist’s studio, a family adopts a group pose. The well-to-do surroundings of the group, whose identity has yet to be determined, reflect the o [+]
The artist, a disciple of Federico de Madrazo and a renowned painter of small works on historical subjects, presents his studio in Paris. He portrays himself in the room at the back, painting a charac [+]
A monkey dressed as a sculptor works in his studio, making a statue of a satyr while another helps him and a third, dressed in elegant clothes, watches his work attentively. Other works by the artist [+]
The teacher at this money school punishes one of the students while another seems to be interceding on his behalf. Behind, the rest of the students look on in fear from their tables. This is a critici [+]
In the Catalan painter’s sophisticated atelier full of assorted treasures and antiquities, clearly influenced by Fortuny’s studio in Rome, a thrilled maidservant eagerly holds a sumptuous cloth in fro [+]
This work bears exceptional witness to the concurrence of Fortuny’s painting with that of his close friend, Raimundo de Madrazo. Begun by the former, it was completed after his death by the latter wit [+]
Gabriele Finaldi was the first to point out that the seated pope seems to be Pius V (Ghislieri), the Dominican, pro-Spanish pontiff who reigned from 1566 to 1572. As Cardinal Ghislieri, he held the of [+]
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This work, sometimes entitled Amorcito, shows the high artistic standard and technical mastery of the marble attained by Bouquel, who was taught by his father, the sculptor José Álvarez [+]