Important Christmas Fine Art Auction: Haute Epoque, Jewels and Colonial Treasures
Lote 796:
Oil on canvas, 158 x 111 cm. A prominent German painter with a deep relationship with Spain and the main forerunner of neoclassicism, he began his artistic training in Dresden under the stern direction of his father, Ishmael Mengs, a Saxon court painter. Between 1741 and 1744 he lived in Rome with his father and sisters, and had the opportunity to study classical antiquity and the works of Michelangelo and Raphael at the Vatican. Highlighting his stay in Naples, where he portrayed members of the royal family of Savoy, and in Florence he painted his friend José Nicolás de Azara (private collection, Madrid) and left his “Self-portrait”, showing himself as a draftsman, at the Galleria degli Uffizi. From his second stay in Spain is the panel of “San Pascual Bailón adoring the Eucharist” for the convent church of that saint in Aranjuez. 2006, volume V, p. 1530-1532). 2006, volume V, p. 1530-1532).
