style: Realism

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

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, […]

Landscape

In 1848 he travelled to Paris, where he visited the Louvre and discovered the work of Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet, the greatest international exponent of pictorial realism. In addition to creating, he also undertook important teaching work, following the precepts of French realist painters and the work of the Barbizon school. His innovative teaching […]

Campos de trigo en Verano [Wheat fields in the summer]

A restless painter in his observations and reflections on art, in tune with the painters of the Barbizon school, whom the artist had met on his travels in France. Also attracted by the work of Gustave Courbet, they made him evolve into a modern realism, which he introduced in Catalonia in his pedagogical system, going […]

Landscape

Lluís Rigalt, professor and director of the School of La Llotja, is considered the first naturalist landscape painter in Catalonia and the forerunner of a school to which such important painters as Martí Alsina, Modest Urgell and Joaquim Vayreda belonged. His paintings are painted in oil, meticulous and elegant, straddling the idealized romantic landscape and […]

Female figure