Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Lote 342:
Oil on canvas. Luis Franco (Valencia, 1850-Barcelona, 1897). Spanish painter. He began his training at the San Carlos School in Valencia and moved to Madrid, where he attended the National Exhibitions with genre paintings. In Madrid he was part of the Association of Watercolorists, painting anecdotal subjects of great commercial success. He completed his training in Paris, under the direction of Léon Gérôme and Ernest Meissonier, specializing in marriage affairs and in orientalist and military affairs in the style of Mariano Fortuny. The Prado Museum has two paintings of this style, Study of the head and In the dressing table. In 1876 he achieved some notoriety by winning a second enlargement medal with the genre work Cambio de couples. He obtained a position as permanent professor at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and from that moment on he devoted himself almost exclusively to commissioned portraits and watercolor-painted genre themes such as Gypsy Life. Measurements: 30 x 40 cm
