Artist: Martin Rico Ortega
méret: 57 x 40 cm
múzeum: Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga (Málaga, Spain)
Technika: Oil On Canvas
It is a well-known fact that most of the landscapes painted by the great master Martín Rico for the European and American markets are in the form of countless views of the city of Venice depicted from all angles in the précieux style so fashionable with the major art dealers of the period (thanks to his great friend Mariano Fortuny, 1838–74), and that this kind of painting afforded Rico a privileged social and financial position among the artists of his time, enabling him to live out his life comfortably. However, Rico also chose Spanish cities as settings for his landscapes, among these Granada (where he travelled with Fortuny in 1871), Fuenterrabía (which he visited in 1872) Seville and Toledo (1875 and 1893). In all his views he mirrored the glowing, bright colours of Mediterranean landscapes which, together with their exceptional technical quality (further confirmation of his special skill with that genre) were among the most appealing aspects of his work.Some years before he decided to adopt the city of canals as practically the only subject of his vedute, Martín Rico lived for short periods in different parts of France, where he encountered landscapes which, due to their geographical characteristics and, basically, their light and atmosphere, were very different from the clear, sunny brightness of those he knew from Italy and Spain.Indeed, in 1869 Rico painted several views of Poissy, and the next year of Bougival. In 1872 he lived for some time in Cloyes and in 1876 produced views of Chartres and Sèvres. He listed all the landscapes he painted in these areas in an inventory (hitherto unpublished) and this canvas must be one of them. The location, however, could be one of several and has not yet been identified. There is evidence that the painting was in the United States in the 19th century, as many of the works listed in Rico
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