Null VICENTE POVEDA Y JUAN (Alicante 1857 - Rome, 1935).

"Male portrait".

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VICENTE POVEDA Y JUAN (Alicante 1857 - Rome, 1935). "Male portrait". Watercolor on paper. Signed in the lower right corner and located in Rome. Measurements: 31 x 22, 5 cm; 46 x 37 cm (frame). Scene of interior where a man is portrayed reading pleasantly. His posture, on a chair, is relaxed in excess in such a way that it seems that the spectator enters in a furtive way in this sumptuous interior. This genre of paintings, called "de casacones", was one of the most demanded by the public during the 19th century. They were genre scenes set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their name comes from the jackets worn by the male protagonists. Vicente Poveda began his training in his hometown. Although he later received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. He later moved to Rome to continue his academic training. It was there where he began to form part of the circle of artists such as Vicente March, Pedro Serrano, Gabriel Puig Roda and Manuel Muñoz. From that moment on he established his studio in Rome, where he developed his entire career.

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VICENTE POVEDA Y JUAN (Alicante 1857 - Rome, 1935). "Male portrait". Watercolor on paper. Signed in the lower right corner and located in Rome. Measurements: 31 x 22, 5 cm; 46 x 37 cm (frame). Scene of interior where a man is portrayed reading pleasantly. His posture, on a chair, is relaxed in excess in such a way that it seems that the spectator enters in a furtive way in this sumptuous interior. This genre of paintings, called "de casacones", was one of the most demanded by the public during the 19th century. They were genre scenes set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their name comes from the jackets worn by the male protagonists. Vicente Poveda began his training in his hometown. Although he later received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. He later moved to Rome to continue his academic training. It was there where he began to form part of the circle of artists such as Vicente March, Pedro Serrano, Gabriel Puig Roda and Manuel Muñoz. From that moment on he established his studio in Rome, where he developed his entire career.

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