RAMÓN GIL REY - View of the Red de San Luis de... Lot n° 47

RAMÓN GIL REY - View of the Red de San Luis de Madrid with the source of the GalapagosRAMÓN GIL REY , Santiago de Compostela c. 1818 - Madrid 1844 , , View of the Red de San Luis in Madrid with the Galapagos fountain , Watercolor on paper , Signed and dated September 1840 , Measurements 340 x 460 mm < br>, Provenance: , , , - Acquired by Don Manuel de Pando y Fernández de Pinedo (1792-1872), IV Count of Villapaterna (see inscription on the back) , - Private collection, Madrid. , , Work exhibited at: , , , - National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Madrid 1840. , , Work referenced at: , , - Ossorio y Bernard, M.Galería bibliography of Spanish artists of the 19th century, Madrid, 1868, p. 286. Spanish-American encyclopedic dictionary of literature, sciences and arts, Barcelona, 1892, T. IX, p. 392, - One hundred years of painting in Spain and Portugal (1830 - 1930), Antiquaria, Madrid, 1989, T. II, pp. 165-166. , , , We are before the masterpiece of the painter and miniaturist Ramón Gil Rey who participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1840, reaping excellent reviews. It is an excellent visual testimony of the famous Red de San Luis in the mid-nineteenth century where we can see the bustling food market with the Galapagos fountain in the center (today in the Retiro) and the disappeared Church of San Luis Obispo, located on Calle de la Montera.