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This portrait provides exceptional testimony to Federico de Madrazo´s fully mature style, which made him the greatest Spanish portrait artist of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Painted a [+]
Este lienzo es una de las obras fundamentales de la pintura del Romanticismo español, así como el primer cuadro importante de este género realizado por Federico de Madrazo a lo largo de su fecundísima [+]
In the mid-nineteenth century Federico de Madrazo produced some of the most successful portraits of the Spanish bourgeoisie during the reign of Isabel II (1833-68), presenting them with the opulence t [+]
Concepción Remisa de Moret was the wife of Segismundo Moret y Quintana, a famous nineteenth-century Spanish writer, politician and landowner whose portrait -also by Madrazo- is in the Prado Mus [+]
According to the inscription on the right, this is a portrait of the painter and friend of Madrazo, Eduardo Rosales. The detailed rendering of the face in profile stands out against the neutral green [+]
The writer Ventura de la Vega (1807-1865), a leading light in Madrid’s literary and artistic circles, was a close friend of the painter. In this portrait, whilst conveying the sitter’s unstudied elega [+]
The sitter, a Monarchist writer, an excellent horsewoman and a friend of the artist, is seated in a fine armchair, her figure brightly lit in the shadowy room. This appealing portrait has a decidedly [+]
A full-length portrait of Federico Flórez as a boy, wearing the uniform of the School of Noble Students of Madrid. This work is especially significant in Madrazo´s oeuvre, as it is one of the f [+]
Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fievé, eldest son of the neoclassical painter, Juan Antonio de Ribera, was also a painter and a friend of Federico de Madrazo, who made this portrait while both lived in [+]
In this skilfully painted portrait, Madrazo combines the model’s innate elegance and restraint with the naturalness of her gesture as she puts on her gloves. The principal light source emphasises the [+]
Louise Amour Marie de Bouillé, the wife of the French ambassador in Madrid, is registered as a copyist at the Museo del Prado from November 1871 onwards. It must have been around then that she [+]
This young aristocrat, portrayed in three-quarter length, stands posed before the viewer wearing a magnificent black satin and velvet dress trimmed with lace and ribbons, a close-fitting bodice and a [+]
The writer Carolina Coronado (1820-1911) was a leading Romantic poet and a staunch advocate of education for women. Her sensitive, melancholy nature is conveyed here with delicate precision. The metic [+]
Although Federico de Madrazo began working in the genre of historical painting, his gifts as an artist promptly led him to portraiture, which he cultivated in all its forms throughout his lengthy care [+]
Madrazo interprets the elegance and refinement of the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres with a personality of his own, especially in the sitter’s pose. The handling of the textiles - notabl [+]
Retrato de José María Zanetti, oriundo de Zaragoza y activo en Roma hacia 1817, donde se encontraba pensionado por Carlos Miguel, XIV duque de Alba, tomando clases en la Academia de San Lucas. Así lo [+]
Retrato del pintor Edmond Wodick (Haldensleben, Alemania, 1816 – Magdeburgo, Alemania, 1886), hijo de un pintor alemán experto en decoraciones, después de un aprendizaje en Magdeburgo como litógrafo c [+]
Retrato de Claudio Lorenzale (Barcelona, 1815 - Barcelona, 1889), pintor de historia y discípulo de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barcelona, de la que llegó a ser director. Como otros artistas, viajó [+]
