IMPORTANT OLD MASTER PAINTINGS AND HAUTE EPOQUE AUCTION, INCLUDING MODERN
Oil on canvas: 43 x 35 cm. Pair of preparatory author canvases for the original work preserved in the Xàtiva Museum of Fine Arts. Measurements: 55 x 86 cm. (Valencia, 1772-Madrid, 1850). Spanish painter. Born in Valencia on September 19, 1772, he began his artistic training as a disciple of the Franciscan Antonio de Villanueva at the Academy of San Carlos in Valencia, an institution where he won the first-class prize in 1789 with the canvas King Hezekiah showing off of his riches (Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia San Pío V), endowed with 40 pesos and a pension to study in Madrid. Already at court, the following year he won first place in the San Fernando Academy contest with the painting The Catholic Monarchs receiving an embassy from the King of Fez (San Fernando Academy, Madrid), and there he assimilates with extraordinary fidelity the academic teachings inherited from Mengs fundamentally through Mariano Salvador Maella, from whom Vicente López picks up the baroque and colorful sense of his compositions and the taste for drawing, precise and analytical, as a method of prior study of his paintings, being equally dazzled by the baroque lavishness of Luca Giordano’s frescoes. Reference bibliography: Díez García, José Luis, Vicente López (1772-1850). Life and work, Madrid, Hispanic Art Foundation, 1999. being equally dazzled by the baroque lavishness of Luca Giordano’s frescoes. Reference bibliography: Díez García, José Luis, Vicente López (1772-1850). Life and work, Madrid, Hispanic Art Foundation, 1999. being equally dazzled by the baroque lavishness of Luca Giordano’s frescoes. Reference bibliography: Díez García, José Luis, Vicente López (1772-1850). Life and work, Madrid, Hispanic Art Foundation, 1999.
