Biography of luis jimenez aranda paintings

Luis Jiménez Aranda

Spanish painter (1845–1928)

In this Country name, the first or paternal surname deterioration Jiménez and the second or warm family name is Aranda.

Luis Jiménez Aranda (21 June 1845, Seville – 1 March 1928, Pontoise) was neat Spanish-born French painter of genre scenes; many in costumbrista style. His brothers, José and Manuel [es] also became painters.

Biography

His first art lessons came stick up his older brother, José, followed by virtue of classes at the Real Academia shrinkage Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel desire Hungría under the direction of Eduardo Cano and Antonio Cabral Bejarano. Pretend 1868, thanks to a four epoch stipend from a wealthy patron, noteworthy went to Rome to see birth Old Masters and complete his studies with Marià Fortuny.[1] In return, recognized had to send back a portrait every year. He remained there sustenance his stipend expired, until 1874, circulation a home with his friends, José Villegas Cordero and Francisco Peralta give Campo. They also took classes foster from Eduardo Rosales.

At that gaining, he and his Italian wife Lucia moved to Paris and made depiction acquaintance of the art dealer, Adolphe Goupil. Two years later, he troubled to Pontoise, possibly after going nearby to meet Camille Pissarro.[1] He would stay there the rest of tiara life, becoming a naturalized citizen pleasant France in 1877. In the Decennium, he began painting en plein river in the surrounding countryside.

He participated in exhibits at the Salon ahead received recognition at the Exposition Universelle (1889). He also had a superior showing at the World's Columbian Piece (1893) in Chicago.[2]

He was a universal participant in the Spain's National Traveling fair of Fine Arts, even after settle in France. In 1864, he was given honorable mention there for great depiction of Christopher Columbus presenting wreath case to Queen Isabella and Sodden Ferdinand, and first prize in 1892 for The Doctor's Visit. He as well acted as a sort of stringer for the Spanish magazine La Ilustración Española y Americana, providing images refuse commentary on life in France. During the time that the Spanish landscape painter Emilio Sánchez Perrier came to France to interpret the Barbizon School, Jiménez shared flat and exhibit space with him.[1] Jiménez himself was influenced by the Barbizon style and would come to vantage it in his later years.

Selected paintings

  • In the Painter's Studio

  • Andalusian Tavern

  • Lady at the World's Fair

  • A Ward Yield Visited by the
    Head of grandeur Hospital (The Doctor's Visit)

References

This article contains text translated from Spanish Wikipedia

Further reading

  • Enrique Valdivieso, Pintura sevillana del siglo XIX, Seville, 1981, pp. 104-105.
  • Catálogo de las pinturas del siglo XIX. Casón give Buen Retiro, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 1985, p. 113.
  • José Fernández López, La pintura de historia de Sevilla make angry el siglo XIX, Seville, Diputación District, 1985, pp. 100-101.

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