103 - Spanish school, first half of the XIX century.

Spanish school, first half of the XIX century. Untitled. Oil on canvas. Frame with lack of polychrome and signs of old xylophages. It can be paired with the lot 35246883 Measurements: 40 x 31 cm; 50 x 42 cm (frame). Image of mythological inspiration showing a young woman who seems to be a nymph holding a light garment that adheres to her waist underlining her forms, similar to how Greek statuary worked the bodies with the technique of "wet cloths". Stylistically the piece is part of the neoclassicism that permeated the aesthetics of the second third of the nineteenth century. Aesthetically, it is worth mentioning that academicism is a direct inheritance of classicism, and hence the predilection for themes such as the one presented here, taken from mythology, although captured from a sensual and decorative point of view far from the solemnity of ancient classical art. Hence also the way of approaching the subject, recreating the mythological figures in a totally new way. Nevertheless, we can appreciate an ideal of beauty that is not based on reality, although the painter's study of nature is undeniable, but rather an idealism based on reality through his sum of experience, that is to say, an aesthetic sublimation that reflects a beauty that transcends reality. Frame with lack of polychromy and signs of old xylophages. It can be paired with the lot 35246883