Catalan school; XIX century. "Landscape". Oil on canvas. Relined. Measurements: 133 x 228 cm. The work presented here shows a colorful landscape where the costumbrismo and landscape painting merge together. The intense blue color predominant throughout the piece is joined by the ocher and green of the place, made from spots of color that give the sensation of freshness and humidity. In this way, a landscape characteristic of spring days is configured, where the breeze combs the trees and scatters on the horizon. Since the mid-nineteenth century Catalan landscape painting developed as a fully autonomous genre, a stage began that would be recognized as a true golden age in the renewal of a theme that until then had been relegated to the background as a mere accompaniment to the great mythological and biblical themes. Experimenting with the new artistic trends that emerged throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, landscape painting developed under a continuous evolution, whose progressive break with academicist conventions led it towards the creative freedom of the so-called Modernity. The French influence together with the demand of the new Catalan bourgeoisie, who found in art collecting a sign of prestige to reaffirm their new social status, led to the emergence of realism in Catalonia with a boom in landscape painting. The strict observation of reality and its naturalistic expression of the surrounding world was imported by Martí Alsina as a result of his trips to Paris, a city that gave him the opportunity to see first hand the work of Courbet and the landscape painters of the Barbizon School. After this first approach to European trends, we will see how from the 70's onwards, a more spiritual conception of landscape will emerge, which will be consolidated with the arrival of symbolism. This current found in the work of Modest Urgell its main precursor, introducing in his landscapes an emotional and melancholic look.