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PLÁCIDO FRANCÉS Y PASCUAL (Alcoy, 1834 - Madrid, 1902). "Gallant scene". Oil on panel. It has slight Repainting. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 29 x 21 cm; 44 x 36 cm (frame). He was born in Alcoy, and began his artistic training in Valencia at the Academy of San Carlos de Valencia, but moved to Madrid in 1854 to complete his studies. There he enrolled as a student at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, later, in 1861, he was appointed Professor of the School of Fine Arts in Valencia and later of Arts and Industries in Madrid. In 1882 he was awarded the Cross of Carlos III. Antonio Cortina Farinós was one of his best known students. In 1862, he made decorations for the "Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas" in Valencia. Four years later, he painted Venus medallions on the ceiling with putti and cherubs for the ballroom of the palace. He also worked on the palaces of the Duke of Santoña and the Marquis of Larios. In 1870 he moved to Madrid, where he became one of the founders of the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Asociación de Acuarelistas de Madrid. He also became a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and began to show his works at the annual National Exhibition of Fine Arts, where he won medals in 1871, 1890 and 1892. His illustrations often appeared in the magazine Blanco y Negro. He died in Madrid at the age of 68. Two of his children were also painters: Fernanda Francés y Arribas (1862-1939), who specialized in painting flowers, and Juan Francés Mexía (1873-1954) and his cousin was the painter Emilio Sala, who was also one of his students. It presents slight Repainting.

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PLÁCIDO FRANCÉS Y PASCUAL (Alcoy, 1834 - Madrid, 1902). "Gallant scene". Oil on panel. It has slight Repainting. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 29 x 21 cm; 44 x 36 cm (frame). He was born in Alcoy, and began his artistic training in Valencia at the Academy of San Carlos de Valencia, but moved to Madrid in 1854 to complete his studies. There he enrolled as a student at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, later, in 1861, he was appointed Professor of the School of Fine Arts in Valencia and later of Arts and Industries in Madrid. In 1882 he was awarded the Cross of Carlos III. Antonio Cortina Farinós was one of his best known students. In 1862, he made decorations for the "Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas" in Valencia. Four years later, he painted Venus medallions on the ceiling with putti and cherubs for the ballroom of the palace. He also worked on the palaces of the Duke of Santoña and the Marquis of Larios. In 1870 he moved to Madrid, where he became one of the founders of the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Asociación de Acuarelistas de Madrid. He also became a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and began to show his works at the annual National Exhibition of Fine Arts, where he won medals in 1871, 1890 and 1892. His illustrations often appeared in the magazine Blanco y Negro. He died in Madrid at the age of 68. Two of his children were also painters: Fernanda Francés y Arribas (1862-1939), who specialized in painting flowers, and Juan Francés Mexía (1873-1954) and his cousin was the painter Emilio Sala, who was also one of his students. It presents slight Repainting.

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PLÁCIDO FRANCÉS Y PASCUAL (Alcoy, 1834 - Madrid, 1902). "Musketeer. Oil on panel. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 20 x 15,5 cm; 42 x 36 cm (frame). The portraits and scenes of musketeers were very popular among the bourgeois clientele of the 19th century, within a context still inherited from romanticism, which sought in the idealized recreation of the past an escape from everyday reality. Numerous painters of the time worked along these lines, seeking to capture with the greatest possible verism scenes of the past recreated with precise attention to detail, worked with a language of academic roots. This type of scenes starring musketeers are framed within the genre of casacón painting, scenes worked with a special narrative and descriptive eagerness, which in Spain will have as main formal reference to Velázquez and his contemporaries. He was born in Alcoy, and began his artistic training in Valencia at the Academy of San Carlos de Valencia, but moved to Madrid in 1854 to complete his studies. There he enrolled as a student at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, later, in 1861, he was appointed Professor of the School of Fine Arts in Valencia and later of Arts and Industries in Madrid. In 1882 he was awarded the Cross of Carlos III. Antonio Cortina Farinós was one of his best known students. In 1862, he made decorations for the "Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas" in Valencia. Four years later, he painted Venus medallions on the ceiling with putti and cherubs for the ballroom of the palace. He also worked on the palaces of the Duke of Santoña and the Marquis of Larios. In 1870 he moved to Madrid, where he became one of the founders of the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Asociación de Acuarelistas de Madrid. He also became a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and began to show his works at the annual National Exhibition of Fine Arts, where he won medals in 1871, 1890 and 1892. His illustrations often appeared in the magazine Blanco y Negro. He died in Madrid at the age of 68. Two of his children were also painters: Fernanda Francés y Arribas (1862-1939), who specialized in painting flowers, and Juan Francés Mexía (1873-1954) and his cousin was the painter Emilio Sala, who was also one of his students.