Technic: Oil on canvas

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 […]

Female figure

The Masrieras were a family of artists who ran their own goldsmith and jewellery business. They had ties to artistic circles and societies, both in terms of industry and business and culture. They were travellers with an interest in the latest trends. They travelled throughout Europe to the main artistic and cultural events of the […]

Female figure

Goldsmith, painter, stage designer and theatre director, he was the most famous member of the Masriera family. Each of the family members undertook a parallel artistic, literary and pictorial activity in their own personal way. The artist is best known for his work as a jeweller and particularly his contributions as an enameller.

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 […]

Rosarito

Ramon Casas was interested in women’s fashion and this is reflected in the female portraits throughout his career. Júlia as model and definitive muse in the work of Ramon Casas has been a constant since he met her in 1905, with whom he lived since 1913 and they married in 1922. About 130 representations of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]