Oil painting on canvas depicting the character with child, 185 cm x 120 cm frame with measures 233 x 167. Signed on ...

Oil painting on canvas depicting the character with child, 185 cm x 120 cm frame with measures 233 x 167. Signed on the lower right Maria Fortuny i Marsal, said Mariano Fortuny (Reus, 1838-1874).
She trained at the workshop Domènec Soberano and later, in 1953, he attended the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, ​​where it is relieved by Claudio Lorenzale.
When he began, with religious and private commissions, has been successful and VIMC rune scholarship for two years to stay in Rome, where in 1858 he became a member of the French Academy and San Luca, visit Naples and knows Morelli and painters Posillipo school, work travels in Morocco in 1860 and soon after also went to Paris.
Here you have the opportunity to appreciate and E. Fromentin G. Louis E. Meissonier for exotic and romantic taste. In 1861 he returned to Italy and then back to Morocco to illustrate the Spanish victories of General Prim. Slo in 1862 he returned to Rome, Florence and Naples where he met school Resin and develops a painting on the theme of realism, akin to the Macchiaioli whose anti-academic program is oriented towards the study of reality and immediacy of the impression that the 'observation suggests, for realizing a tonal painting in vibrant colors, dipped in a clear light and crisp. His art creates works with an exotic flavor, vibrant touch, dall'accesa richness of color and brushstrokes almost impalpable and smooth.
Notable is the work of which we are concerned and in it are clear all the characters of his painting: brilliant style, highly realistic, that his pictorial imagination summarizes performance with oil, like watercolor piece because of the its lightness. ASORstudio