Landscape. Oil on canvas. 19th century.

Landscape. Oil on canvas. GARCÍA LESMES, Aurelio (Valladolid, Spain, 1884-Mexico City, Mexico, 1942). Signed (lower right). Aurelio García Lesmes was a Spanish painter who began his training in Valladolid and, thanks to a grant from the Provincial Council, continued it at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, where he became better known at National Exhibitions of Fine Arts (he won a third medal at the 1917 exhibition, second at the 1922 exhibition and first at the 1926 exhibition). In the capital he met Valle-Inclán, Ricardo Baroja, Darío de Regoyos...

Landscapes, Xalapa, Mexico. Pair of oils on canvas. Spanish school, around 1840. Provenance: Conde de la Cortina collection, Jalapa, Mexico. Couple of landscapes framed within the Spanish school of the first half of the 19th century, with a clear romantic affiliation. Both evidence the knowledge of the Dutch classicist landscape, one of the main influences on the Spanish romantic landscape. Thus, we see compositions in "V", closed on the sides and open in the center, very low horizons that allow a wide development of the sky, spaces built in depth based on successive planes subtly differentiated by light and color, and small figures perfectly integrated into the natural setting. In addition, the skies are scenographic and dramatic, with low clouds behind which the golden light characteristic of the classicist landscape filters. One of the most radical aspects of romantic painting was the attempt to replace large canvases with historical or religious themes with landscapes. They wanted the pure landscape, almost figureless or totally devoid of them, to achieve the heroic significance of history painting. They were based on the idea that human feeling and nature should be complementary, one reflected in the other. In other words, the landscape should arouse emotion and transmit ideas. Thus, landscapers like the author of these canvases tried to express their feelings through the landscape, instead of imitating it. The romantic landscape had two main aspects: the dramatic one, with turbulent and fantastic views, and the naturalistic one, which emphasized images of a peaceful and serene nature. This second conception is what we see embodied in these works; the painter tries to communicate a religious reverence for the landscape, nature in its fullness. In fact, the author's own use of light here conveys a foggy, cloudy, dreamlike atmosphere that invites the viewer to meditate and contemplate himself in the landscape. The romantic landscape is constituted, however, by manifestations of very different types and not comparable to each other; it does not affect all national schools equally, staying more faithful to tradition in schools such as the French or the Dutch. Thus, in this canvas we do not find the grandiose scenery of the British and Germans, the steep mountains or the monumental Gothic ruin...

Oil on board. Rural landscape with a watercourse, a stone bridge and a house in ruins, located among trees, animated by the presence of a person and without apparent subject matter ...

Couple of landscapes. Oil on canvas. Spanish school (BILSO), 20th century. Signed in the lower corners. Pair of landscapes or notes of rural landscapes with trees, mountains and bu...

Antique oil painting romance landscape painting. 19th century Oil on canvas. Romantic scene landscape painting under a clear blue sky. Oil on canvas early 19th century. Painting fr...

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European Framed Oil on Canvas of a Landscape, 19th Century

Decorative 19th-century oil on canvas landscape, later re-lined, depicting a lush natural scene with abundant vegetation. Presented in its original antique giltwood frame, the work d...