Spanish school; late nineteenth century. "Caballero". Oil on canvas.

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  Spanish school; late nineteenth century. "Caballero". Oil on canvas. It has a frame from the early twentieth century. Measurements: 66.5 x 41 cm; 87 x 78 cm (frame). Although the work uses certain technical aspects inherited from the portrait tradition, such as, for example, the representation of the long bust slightly turned, a neutral background, and a chromatic range based on ochre or earth tones, the author introduces a completely new way of using the brush. He uses broad brushstrokes that he finishes off with strokes to define the character's physiognomy. Another remarkable aspect of the work, is the posture of the protagonist who is with his hands intertwined, slightly inclined. An attitude that denotes a certain closeness to the viewer, thus providing a friendlier vision and fleeing from the rigidity and sobriety of the portraits. In the 19th century, the panorama of European portraiture was varied and broad, with numerous influences and largely determined by the taste of both the clientele and the painter himself. However, in this century a new concept of portraiture was born, which would evolve throughout the century and unify all the national schools: the desire to capture the personality of the human being and his character, beyond his external reality and his social rank, in his effigy. During the previous century, portraiture had become consolidated among the upper classes, and was no longer reserved only for the court. For this reason, the formulas of the genre, as the 17th century progressed and even more so in the 18th century, became more relaxed and moved away from the ostentatious and symbolic official representations typical of the Baroque apparatus. On the other hand, the 19th century will react against the rigid etiquette of the previous century with a more human and individual conception of life, and this will be reflected in all areas, from the furniture that becomes smaller and more comfortable, replacing the large gilded and carved furniture, to the portrait itself, which will come to dispense, as we see here, of any symbolic or scenographic element to capture the individual instead of the character.
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