Enrique Simonet y Lombardo

ENRIQUE SIMONET Y LOMBARDO (Valencia, 1863 - Madrid, 1927).
Untitled.
Oil on canvas.
Requires cleaning and presents tension on the canvas.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 46 x 62 cm.
Rural landscape with a series of trees located under a powerful and clear light, with a shadow at the bottom creating some contrast and space. Clearly, by the brushstrokes, the composition, the subject, etc. we are before a work that already shows influence and relation with certain pictorial post-impressionist currents.
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 in Madrid, with the work that was his first success, "Flevit super illam", painted in Rome. He also won awards at the Universal Exposition of Chicago (1894), Barcelona (1896) and Paris (1900). Between 1893 and 1894 he traveled to Morocco as a correspondent for "La Ilustración Española y Americana", and 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.