Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

1841-1920 Spanish Son of Federico de Madrazo y Kentz. Because of his ability and training with his father, Federico, in the Real Academia de S Fernando in Madrid and with Leon Cogniet in Paris, he seemed destined to continue the family tradition of academic painting. However, due to the influence of the Belgian Alfred Stevens, of his brother-in-law, Mariano Jose Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal, and the Parisian environment, he exchanged dry historical painting for the preciousness of the tableautin, the small, intimate genre painting. He lived in Paris and New York and became so remote from Spanish artistic life that he and Fortuny y Marsal were the only Spanish artists not to participate in any national exhibition, and because of this the Spanish state never directly acquired their works. In 1882, with Giuseppe De Nittis, Stevens and the gallery owner Georges Petit, he co-founded the Exposition Internationale de Peinture, designed to promote foreign artists in Paris. Madrazo Garreta most characteristic works are the female portrait and the witty and elegant genre painting, with soft, delicate tones and suggestive poses. The influence of the Rococo and of Japanese art is reflected in his painting, which expresses an exquisite aristocratic or bourgeois ideal, the illusion of a refined, sensual and superficial life. Consequently, his works are also described as representing the Parisian seraglio. American collectors paid high prices for his paintings, for example Alexander Turney Stewart bought Lady with a Parrot; Carnival Festival (1878) was purchased by L. Wolfe; and Girls at the Window (1875) was bought by J. W. Vanderbilt, the last two now being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His portraits were better received in Spain although because of collectors such as Ramen de Errazu (d 1909), the Museo del Prado has a good number of his paintings (e.g. After the Bath).


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Raimundo de Madrazo y  Garreta Women at a Window (nn02) oil


Women at a Window (nn02)
Painting ID::  23125
Women at a Window (nn02)
n.d.oil on canvas,28 5/8 x 25 1/2'' The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York City.Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe,1887 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection
   
   
     

Raimundo de Madrazo y  Garreta Pool in the Alcazar of Seville (nn02) oil


Pool in the Alcazar of Seville (nn02)
Painting ID::  23126
Pool in the Alcazar of Seville (nn02)
c 1872 Oil on canvas,23 5/8 x 35 1/2'' Cason del Buen Retiro Museo del Prado,Madrid
   
   
     

Raimundo de Madrazo y  Garreta The wall of the new workshop oil


The wall of the new workshop
Painting ID::  57196
The wall of the new workshop
mk253 canvas 168 x 232 cm in 1952 in St. Petersburg, Russia museum
   
   
     

Raimundo de Madrazo y  Garreta Versailles le jardin du Roi oil


Versailles le jardin du Roi
Painting ID::  73169
Versailles le jardin du Roi
Date 1914 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 17 x 30 cm cyf
   
   
     

Raimundo de Madrazo y  Garreta Elihu Root. Painting oil on canvas oil


Elihu Root. Painting oil on canvas
Painting ID::  78187
Elihu Root. Painting oil on canvas
Elihu Root. Painting oil on canvas, 31½" x 25½". Date 1907(1907) cjr
   
   
     

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     Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
     1841-1920 Spanish Son of Federico de Madrazo y Kentz. Because of his ability and training with his father, Federico, in the Real Academia de S Fernando in Madrid and with Leon Cogniet in Paris, he seemed destined to continue the family tradition of academic painting. However, due to the influence of the Belgian Alfred Stevens, of his brother-in-law, Mariano Jose Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal, and the Parisian environment, he exchanged dry historical painting for the preciousness of the tableautin, the small, intimate genre painting. He lived in Paris and New York and became so remote from Spanish artistic life that he and Fortuny y Marsal were the only Spanish artists not to participate in any national exhibition, and because of this the Spanish state never directly acquired their works. In 1882, with Giuseppe De Nittis, Stevens and the gallery owner Georges Petit, he co-founded the Exposition Internationale de Peinture, designed to promote foreign artists in Paris. Madrazo Garreta most characteristic works are the female portrait and the witty and elegant genre painting, with soft, delicate tones and suggestive poses. The influence of the Rococo and of Japanese art is reflected in his painting, which expresses an exquisite aristocratic or bourgeois ideal, the illusion of a refined, sensual and superficial life. Consequently, his works are also described as representing the Parisian seraglio. American collectors paid high prices for his paintings, for example Alexander Turney Stewart bought Lady with a Parrot; Carnival Festival (1878) was purchased by L. Wolfe; and Girls at the Window (1875) was bought by J. W. Vanderbilt, the last two now being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His portraits were better received in Spain although because of collectors such as Ramen de Errazu (d 1909), the Museo del Prado has a good number of his paintings (e.g. After the Bath).

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