The Print Lover, By José Diaz Valera 1869

The Print Lover, oil on canvas by José Diaz Valera dated 1869.
In the center of a room lit from the left, a seated man wearing a powdered wig and in Louis XV period clothing looks attentively at prints arranged in a open box placed on a Louis XV chair. On the wall we recognize a cartel from the same period and a Virgin and Child. On a shelf in the middle of copies of antiques and Chinese porcelain we recognize The Flayed Horse by Théodore Gericault.
Beautiful and large oil on canvas in very good condition, in its period frame. The subject is completely typical of the painter
Frame 93x78 cm

José Diaz Valera is a Spanish painter born in Seville in 1827 and died in the same city in 1903. he is a disciple of José María Romero and studied at the School of Fine Arts -Arts of Seville. He belongs to the last generation of painters of the costumbrismo artistic movement. He completed his training in Paris, between 1860 and 1868, thanks to a pension from the Provincial Council of Seville, and in 1888 he was appointed Academician of Fine Arts of the same city. In 1860, he appeared at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with the work The First Interview and in 1862 with The Workshop of a Painter, which is one of his best works, with which he obtained a medal of honor. second class. The work of this artist is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville (Fernández Martínez, D. in Enciclopedia MNP, Madrid, 2006,… |. +