Important Christmas Fine Art Auction: Haute Epoque, Jewels and Colonial Treasures
Lote 378:
Oil on canvas, unreserved lot. Measurements: 100 x 80 cm. Valencian painter and one of the greatest exponents of Valencian chiaroscuro, disciple of the Murcian master Pedro Orrente. Little biographical information is known about him, except for the cliché that he had an explosive and variable temperament, commented on by Palomino, among others. He became famous as a painter of religious scenes and battle paintings. The types of his figures and his compositions refer us to Orrente, although in them he displays a greater baroque style. Most of his battle scenes are taken from engravings by Italian authors such as Antonio Tempesta, comparing him, saving the distance, with Aniello Falcone. He is one of the first Valencian painters who frequently draws inspiration from prints of Rubens’ works. In his creations on evangelical themes he conceives large, theatrical spaces in which he arranges the figures grouped in dispersed groups, which are connected by their gestures and gestures. He was also a famous portraitist, a facet that we know through his self-portrait and the portrait of his son Miguel, who was his best successor, along with Juan Conchillos and Senén Vila (Sánchez del Peral, JR in: EMNP, 2006, volume IV, pp. 1475-1476).
