Circle of PEDRO NUÑEZ DE VILLAVICENCIO (Seville, 1644 - Madrid, 1695). "Popular children. Oil on canvas.

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  Circle of PEDRO NUÑEZ DE VILLAVICENCIO (Seville, 1644 - Madrid, 1695). "Popular children. Oil on canvas. Presents broken frame, jumps in the painting and original canvas. Size: 134 x 103 cm. The artist offers us a work worked with the delicacy with which Murillo worked his female figures and children, with special emphasis on their poor and naive character in the case of the latter. In this work we see a scene framed within the costumbrismo of the XVII century, worked with a realistic language where a composition stands out, balanced and well established, as well as in the almost pearly quality of the children's flesh tones. This composition and the theme treated by the author, typical of the scenes of the reality of the Spain of the Golden Century and the picaresque literature of the time, bring the piece closer to the naturalist current. It is a genre in which popular types and attitudes, behaviors, values and habits common to a specific group of the population, region or class are described through the description, satirical, nostalgic or narrative, of the environments, customs, clothing, parties and entertainment, traditions, trades and representative types of a society. The idea of costumbrismo arose from an attempt to understand reality, or more precisely, reality understood in a particular way, from a specific point of view. Born in Seville, Pedro Nuñez participated in the founding of the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville, founded by Murillo and Herrera el Mozo. Murillo directed this workshop with numerous assistants and apprentices whose main objective was to complete the training of young painters, considered insufficient in drawing. The participation of Pédro Núñez was, for his age, certainly exceptional, making some of the additions in the hall of the Seville market where the artistic institution is based. He himself became a member of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1661, and had to settle in Malta, alternating with trips to Seville, possibly Rome, and southern Italy, where he worked as a painter and met the Calabrian Mattia Preti. In 1675, due to the plague that broke out in Malta, he returned definitively to Seville, where he became the Order's point of reference in administrative matters for the Priory of his Order in Castile. In 1693 and 1694 he went to Madrid to participate in the commission that was to appoint the ambassador of the Order at the Court of Madrid. It was on this occasion that he offered the painting Juegos infantiles a Carlos II (Children's Games to Charles II) on his return from one of his trips to Seville. He is known for being a friend and executor of Murillo at the death of the master of Seville in 1682.
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