LUIS JIMÉNEZ ARANDA (Seville, 1845 - Pontoise,... Lot 30

LUIS JIMÉNEZ ARANDA (Seville, 1845 - Pontoise, France, 1928). "Portrait of a Lady by the Seine, 1887. Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and located in the lower left corner. Size: 56 x 36 cm; 75 x 54 cm (frame). Luis Jiménez Aranda began his training under the guidance of his brothers José and Manuel. He then continued his studies at the Academia de Bellas Artes Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, where his teacher was Eduardo Cano de la Peña. In 1867 he went to Rome to broaden his knowledge and in 1876 he settled in Pontoise, near Paris, eventually becoming a French citizen. Throughout his career he took part in various official exhibitions in both France and Spain and was also a prize-winner at the Chicago World's Fair (1893). He also took part in the Paris Salons and took part in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions in Madrid, where he was awarded an honourable mention in 1864 and a first medal in 1892 for "La visita del médico" ("The Doctor's Visit"). This same canvas earned him the grand medal of honour at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1889. He specialised in the historical genre, although he also produced costumbrista works, always in a veristic style in which the importance of the drawing stands out, the result of the influence of his brother José. Luis Jiménez Aranda is represented in the Museo del Prado, the Meadows Museum of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, among other institutions, as well as in various private collections.