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José Villegas"The Florence Sisters", 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Spanish Artist José VillegasCirca 1915
Circa 1915
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JOSÉ VILLEGAS Y CORDERO
Spanish 1844 - 1921
"The Florence Sisters"
signed "Villegas" (lower left)
oil on canvas
33-1/2 X 40-1/2 inches (84.5 X 102.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
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José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918.
Biography
He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano.
In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny.
He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique.
Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco.
At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda, where he ended up entering Rosales' workshop.
His first works in the Eternal City have a costumbrista tint, which is also a highly demanded theme by the public. Proof of this are his works Improvised Toilet, Bullfighters in the Plaza Chapel (1871) and The Rest of the Gang (1873), among others.
Orientalist themes were also demanded of him, which Villegas was able to masterfully carry out thanks to the sketches he had treasured in Morocco, as well as certain works of "genre painting". In the mid-1970s he returned to Seville and took the opportunity to visit Morocco again.
Again in Rome, he picked up the witness from Fortuny and thus became the best-regarded and most sought-after painter in the city. In these times, the paintings of costumbrista and also orientalist themes exploited. Some of his works could be seen in Seville thanks to regional exhibitions and in Madrid thanks to the Bosch and Hernández galleries.
In 1878, the Senate commissioned him a canvas with a historical theme that should be about Hernán Cortés's interview with Moctezuma. In 1882 the Senate withdrew the commission, but Villegas had already been interested in historical painting and embarked on works such as La paz de Cambray and Don Juan de Austria's last visit to Felipe II, all of them of excellent workmanship.
From 1877 on, he frequently resided in Venice, where he fed on his views to set pictures such as The Feast of Marys and The Redeemer's Procession. It also exploited at this time themes inspired by the Italian Renaissance, such as Venetian Lady of the 16th century, Doge Moncenigo and Palace of the Venetian Republic among others. Many of the works conceived in this period ended up not only in Europe, but in the collections of great North American millionaires, all of them reaching astronomical prices. The economic bonanza allowed Villegas to build a villa-studio in Rome, with a fantastic Moorish aesthetic; which unfortunately would be demolished in the 1950s.
Well into the 1980s, a Dutch publisher suggested that he illustrate with Francisco Pradilla and other famous painters from all over Europe a Great Bible. Villegas took over passages related to Isaiah's prophecies.
The decade of the 90's passed calmly for the painter, who then exploited representations of ecclesiastical characters (The Cardinal Penitentiary, 1891) as well as the ever-present costumbrista theme (El día de Ramos, 1891). His renowned painting The Death of the Bullfighter, sold for 100,000 pesetas, belongs to this period.
In 1898 Villegas was granted the position of director of the Academy of Spain in Rome, held until then by Alejo Vera. He makes vigorous use of his post, demanding rigor in the exercises, the application of the pensioner and the obligatory nature of a stay in Paris.
In 1901 he was appointed director of the Prado Museum, so he left his Roman study house and moved his residence to Madrid. He would resign from office in 1918, following the theft of several pieces of the Dolphin Treasure by a museum employee. The portraits of Alfonso XIII (1902) and Pastora Imperio (1913) are from this period.
In 1914 he concluded a singular series of twelve paintings titled Decalogue, which deal with the ten commandments plus a prologue and an epilogue; Declared a Site of Cultural Interest by the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía in 1992.
Work
His subjects are very varied: historical, traditional and anecdotal. His brushstroke is loose and spontaneous. Among his influences are Fortuny, Madrazo and Eduardo Rosales. Sergio Carnicer was a great friend.
His works include: The Death of the Master (1882), Dance by Bulerías (1884), Moroccan Smoker, The Old Man and the New Year (1915).
- Creator:José Villegas (1844 - 1921)
- Creation Year:Circa 1915
- Dimensions:Height: 33.27 in (84.5 cm)Width: 40.36 in (102.5 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:84.5 x 102.5 cm.Price: $10,471
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- Gallery Location:Madrid, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128116515032
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