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Spanish school; 19th century. "The reading". Oil on table. It presents repaints on the pictorial
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Spanish school; 19th century.
La lectura" ("Reading").
Oil on panel.
It has repainting on the pictorial surface.
Signed Gisbert in the intermediate left zone.
Measurements: 26,5 x 20,5 cm; 54,5 x 49 cm (frame).
In this work the author creates a trompe l'oeil playing with the concept of painting as ornamentation. In the foreground we see a young man in a white wig and white frock coat in 18th-century fashion, engrossed in reading. The man is set in a light-toned interior with rococo furniture and two paintings that reveal the artist's influence on and homage to Vermeer. Although the smaller painting is not clearly visible, the forms of the larger one indicate that it is a work that sketches the painting known as "The Art of Painting", also known as The Allegory of Painting, or Painter in his Studio. Currently owned by the Republic of Austria, it is on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Its composition and iconography make it the most complex of all Vermeer's works. This illusionist painting is one of Vermeer's most famous.
This type of scenes, with a gallant and hedonistic theme, cheerful and colourful, worked in a precious and descriptive manner, were common during the second half of the 19th century, within the context of historicism. They belong to the genre known as "de casacones" in Spain and "tableautin" in France, characterised by works inspired by an idealised past, often from the 17th and 18th centuries, normally in small or medium format and intended for an eminently bourgeois clientele. One of the first examples of this genre was Mariano Fortuny's "Il Contino", dated 1861 and now in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña.
La lectura" ("Reading").
Oil on panel.
It has repainting on the pictorial surface.
Signed Gisbert in the intermediate left zone.
Measurements: 26,5 x 20,5 cm; 54,5 x 49 cm (frame).
In this work the author creates a trompe l'oeil playing with the concept of painting as ornamentation. In the foreground we see a young man in a white wig and white frock coat in 18th-century fashion, engrossed in reading. The man is set in a light-toned interior with rococo furniture and two paintings that reveal the artist's influence on and homage to Vermeer. Although the smaller painting is not clearly visible, the forms of the larger one indicate that it is a work that sketches the painting known as "The Art of Painting", also known as The Allegory of Painting, or Painter in his Studio. Currently owned by the Republic of Austria, it is on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Its composition and iconography make it the most complex of all Vermeer's works. This illusionist painting is one of Vermeer's most famous.
This type of scenes, with a gallant and hedonistic theme, cheerful and colourful, worked in a precious and descriptive manner, were common during the second half of the 19th century, within the context of historicism. They belong to the genre known as "de casacones" in Spain and "tableautin" in France, characterised by works inspired by an idealised past, often from the 17th and 18th centuries, normally in small or medium format and intended for an eminently bourgeois clientele. One of the first examples of this genre was Mariano Fortuny's "Il Contino", dated 1861 and now in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña.
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Spanish school; 19th century. "The reading". Oil on table. It presents repaints on the pictorial
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