Casto PLASENCIA Y MAESTRO (1846- 1890), after Velázquez
Portrait of the Infanta Margerita Teresa
Canvas.
Inscription on the back of the frame: C Plasencia.
Old restorations. Small accidents.
70,5 x 82,5 cm
Small accidents to the frame.
Reprise of the portrait of the infanta in the Meninas of Velázquez kept in the Prado Museum in Madrid (1656).
Trained at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid as a history painter, Casto Plasencia
y Maestro (1846-1890) won the prize for a stay in Rome. He achieved great success with Origin of the Roman Republic in 598 B.C. at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878. In addition to numerous religious commissions, he painted portraits of King Alfonso XII and then converted to painting landscapes in the open air, which earned him the title of "painter of light". The five works conserved in the Prado illustrate his different
pictorial genres.
With the Romanticism of the 19th century, Velázquez was definitively rehabilitated beyond the Pyrenees. In France, writers like Gautier and Baudelaire
like Gautier and Baudelaire celebrated him, and Couture, Fantin-Latour, Manet or Sargent took him as a model.
There are many testimonies of the practice of copies made in the Pardo Museum, both by young students learning their national tradition and by those
students who learn their national tradition as well as by artists who sell them to passing tourists. The Prado Museum
of the Prado has several examples (Fortuny).
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