Spanish school of the late 19th century

Spanish school of the late 19th century.
"Musketeer".
Oil on canvas.
Presents faults in the frame.
Measurements: 80 x 48 cm; 95 x 62 cm (frame).

The portraits and scenes of musketeers were very popular among the bourgeois clientele of the 19th century, within a context still inherited from romanticism, which sought in the idealized recreation of the past an escape from everyday reality. Numerous painters of the time worked along these lines, seeking to capture scenes of the past with the greatest possible verism, recreated with precise attention to detail, worked with a language of academic roots. This type of scenes starring musketeers are framed within the genre of casacón painting, scenes worked with a special narrative and descriptive eagerness, which in Spain will have as main formal reference Velázquez and his contemporaries.