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ENRIQUE SIMONET Y LOMBARDO (Valencia, 1863 - Madrid, 1927). "The expulsion of the merchants". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Titled on the back. It has a patch on the back. Needs cleaning. Measurements: 70 x 87 cm; 99 x 113 cm (frame). Enrique Simonet resorts in this occasion to the biblical passage in which Jesus expels the merchants and money changers of the temple of Jerusalem in order to recreate in his singular skill to capture the choral agitation of that moment of tension. With rapid brushstrokes, he offers us a lively scene in which the merchants quickly carry their merchandise, take their bundles, cloths and jewels. Simonet's interest in the exoticism of features and clothing is evident. He imagines the temple of Jerusalem with thickly chiseled columns, among which Jesus is shouting with a heavenly aura. In the distance, several seagulls fly across a blue sky and a white village is drawn on the sand. Simonet began his training at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, and continued in Malaga, in the workshop of Bernardo Ferrándiz. In 1887 he went to Rome, making a trip throughout Italy. In the Italian capital his apprenticeship was completely conditioned by the prevailing classicism of the time, as can be seen in his work "The decapitation of St. Peter", which would occupy a preferential place in the cathedral of Malaga. He visited Paris several times, and in 1890 he toured the Mediterranean. In 1892 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition of Madrid, with the work that was his first success, "Flevit super illam", painted in Rome but for which he had documented in his travels in the Holy Land. He also won awards at the Universal Exposition in Chicago (1894), Barcelona (1896) and Paris (1900). Between 1893 and 1894 he traveled to Morocco as correspondent of "La Ilustración Española y Americana", context in which he would paint the work that we now present, being part of the expedition of the extraordinary Embassy of General Martínez Campos in Marrakech, whose mission was to reach an agreement with the Sultan Muley Hassan to put an end to the war initiated in 1893 by the tribes of the Rif. In 1901 he obtained a chair at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where he settled. In 1911 he moved to the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, also as a professor, and between 1921 and 1922 he was director of the El Paular Residence for landscape painters. He is represented in the Prado Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of Malaga and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

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ENRIQUE SIMONET Y LOMBARDO (Valencia, 1863 - Madrid, 1927). "The expulsion of the merchants". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Titled on the back. It has a patch on the back. Needs cleaning. Measurements: 70 x 87 cm; 99 x 113 cm (frame). Enrique Simonet resorts in this occasion to the biblical passage in which Jesus expels the merchants and money changers of the temple of Jerusalem in order to recreate in his singular skill to capture the choral agitation of that moment of tension. With rapid brushstrokes, he offers us a lively scene in which the merchants quickly carry their merchandise, take their bundles, cloths and jewels. Simonet's interest in the exoticism of features and clothing is evident. He imagines the temple of Jerusalem with thickly chiseled columns, among which Jesus is shouting with a heavenly aura. In the distance, several seagulls fly across a blue sky and a white village is drawn on the sand. Simonet began his training at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, and continued in Malaga, in the workshop of Bernardo Ferrándiz. In 1887 he went to Rome, making a trip throughout Italy. In the Italian capital his apprenticeship was completely conditioned by the prevailing classicism of the time, as can be seen in his work "The decapitation of St. Peter", which would occupy a preferential place in the cathedral of Malaga. He visited Paris several times, and in 1890 he toured the Mediterranean. In 1892 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition of Madrid, with the work that was his first success, "Flevit super illam", painted in Rome but for which he had documented in his travels in the Holy Land. He also won awards at the Universal Exposition in Chicago (1894), Barcelona (1896) and Paris (1900). Between 1893 and 1894 he traveled to Morocco as correspondent of "La Ilustración Española y Americana", context in which he would paint the work that we now present, being part of the expedition of the extraordinary Embassy of General Martínez Campos in Marrakech, whose mission was to reach an agreement with the Sultan Muley Hassan to put an end to the war initiated in 1893 by the tribes of the Rif. In 1901 he obtained a chair at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where he settled. In 1911 he moved to the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, also as a professor, and between 1921 and 1922 he was director of the El Paular Residence for landscape painters. He is represented in the Prado Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of Malaga and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

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