Roma Caves, Granada, c. 1871

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Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 19.05 × 12.7 cm (7 1/2 × 5 in.)

framed: 45.72 × 40.64 × 11.43 cm (18 × 16 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2016.22.5

Artists / Makers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal (artist) Spanish, 1838 - 1874

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: Fortuny

Provenance

The artist [1838-1874]; William H. Stewart [1820-1897], New York; (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-4 February 1898, 2nd day, no. 80); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Stewart, William H.

Exhibition History

1970: Fortuny and His Circle, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 30 March - 15 May 1970, no. 10.

2003: Fortuny (1838-1874), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 17 October 2003 - 18 January 2004, no. 91, repro., as Cova de gitanos.

2005: Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso, Albuquerque Museum; Meadows Museum, Dallas, 21 August 2005 - 26 February 2006, no. 5, repro.

Bibliography

1911: Mireur, Hippolyte. Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et et à l’étranger pendant les XVIIIme & XIXme siècles. 7 vols. Paris, 1911: 3:188.

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 160, no. 137.

1942: Ciervo, J. El arte y el vivir de Fortuny. Barcelona, 1942: fig. 73.

1989: González López, Carlos, Montse Martí, and Juan Ainaud de Lasarte. Mariano Fortuny Marsal. 2 vols. (Maestros del Arte de los siglos XIX y XX). Barcelona, 1989: 1:312-313, fig. 159; 2:90.

1990: Trenton, Patricia and William H. Gerdts, eds. California Light, 1900-1930. Exh. cat. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1990-1991: 27, pl. 22.