Century: 19th

Bust of a lady

Painter, draughtsman and illustrator. Alongside Santiago Rusiñol, he determined the new direction and the move towards artistic modernity in Barcelona. From a wealthy family who liked to travel, in the year 1881 at the age of 15, he went to Paris to study with Charles Auguste Emile-Duran, known as Carolus. Based on the resemblance, this […]

Gypsy woman sitting

Nonell painted figures of gypsies until 1907. With a sober, introspective and respectful look, he portrayed an old woman resting; the model was known as Grandma, of gypsy ethnicity. Reluctant to modernist aesthetics, his models were few and far between: Consol, the gypsy who provided him with his “grandmother”, represented in this work, his cousin […]

Landscape

It is a pastoral narrative, as the composition lacks a main element or figure, leaving the landscape as the protagonist, representing an idealised and harmonious rural scene. In his landscapes, chiefly of the beech groves or wetland undergrowth around Olot, rural scenes interpreted in a very agile style imbued with the French “plein air”, he […]

Landscape

An artist of great technical precision, a master of watercolour painting, which was a medium much appreciated in the 19th century. The government of the First Republic sent him to Rome, where he lived for ten years, to study at the Academy of Rome. He had great international impact, as the market, with the art […]

Valencian landscape

El trabajo [Work]

He was a disciple of Ramon Martí Alsina, developing the rural landscape genre typical of the school of costumbrismo and realism. Fundamentally considered a landscape artist, he created both portraits and historical and genre paintings. A painter of landscapes and naturalistic works with historical and allegorical themes, evocative for their idealism, with epic nuances, like […]

Landscape with chickens

His work is rooted in Catalan realism, but in the last 20 years of his career, it underwent an evolution with the artist’s desire to modernise. He spent time in Rome and travelled to Paris and to the large international exhibitions on several occasions, giving him a grounding in modernity. Paisaje con gallinas and Paisaje […]

Landscape with doves

Forest figure

Influenced by the French naturalist school of the plein-air, inspired by idyllic romantic scenes within realistic elegant compositions, mainly genre scenes that had recently gained popularity. Due to his intellectual pursuits, he formed part of artistic and industrial societies and he was a leading and influential figure for painters and those around him. In 1915, […]

The champagne glass

Genre painting with great attention to detail and in the precious style, the brushwork is traditional of gallant classicist painting that we also see in Fragonard and Wateau. We see the theme of modernity in the new protagonists, the inspiration of Paris nightlife and the amusement offered by the urban setting and leisure. The style […]