Important Christmas Fine Art Auction: Haute Epoque, Jewels and Colonial Treasures
Lote 309:
Exquisite female portrait signed and dated by Antonio Morgado, painter of customs. A young woman from Seville appears, dressed in a fine manila shawl and fan. Special attention to details, bright spots, palpable for example in the charro earrings that she wears. Neutral background so as not to distract the viewer from the young woman’s somewhat melancholic gaze. Oil on panel, gilded frame with fine gold of the time. Antonio Alonso Morgado y González (1850 – 1889) was a portrait and customs painter active in Seville in the second half of the 19th century. He is the father of the Sevillian poet Pedro Alonso-Morgado Tallafer (1888-1962). He participated in the Provincial Exhibition of Seville in 1867 with three portraits (one of a boy and another of a girl) and in 1877 with the painting Hen with Chickens. At the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1876 he presented the work ¡Pobre calceta!. Queen Isabel II acquired the portrait of the writer Fernan Caballero to place it in one of the halls of the Alcázar of Seville. Dimensions: 60 x 50 x 7 cm framed, measurements: 41 x 29 cm.
