Lot 786
  • 786

Martín Rico y Ortega

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Martín Rico y Ortega
  • Guadarrama (Espagne)
  • signed M. RICO (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 1/2 by 36 1/4 in.; 64.8 by 92.1 cm

Provenance

Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, by 1869
Bequest of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, 1926

Exhibited

Paris, Salon de 1869, no. 2038, titled Guadarrama (Espagne)
(Possibly) Newark Museum, 1920
Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, 1800-1874 European and American Landscape: To Look on Nature, February 3 - March 5, 1972, no. 72, illustrated in catalogue pp. 202-203 and titled Landscape
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, The Landscape Painter Martín Rico (1833-1908), October 30, 2012 - February 10, 2013, no. 18
Dallas, Meadows Museum, Impressions of Europe: 19th-Century Vistas by Martín Rico, March 10 - July 7, 2013, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue p. 153 and titled The Guadaramma Mountains

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is lined. Surface in overall good condition; colors are bright and fresh. Under UV: Dots and dashes of inpainting in sky and strengthening around trees. Large spot in center of sky shows repair. Appears to have been selectively clean as there are remnants of varnish which fluoresces green. Figures appear clean and signature is partially under old varnish.
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