MARIANO BAQUERO (Aranjuez, 1838 1890)
MARIANO BAQUERO (Aranjuez, 1838 1890)
LA RÊVEUSE AU TAMBOURIN Watercolour and gouache highlights on paper
Circa 1890
Signed lower right
63 x 100 cm
This watercolour, Baquero's preferred medium, represents a tambourine player languishing on carpets and large cushions. The interior is strewn with everyday objects: ewer on its tray, Egyptian wolf skin, velvet mules embroidered with gold and silver threads, flowers, perfume burner... Seized in the middle of a dream, the young woman's gaze refers itself to this dream of the East that was Orientalism in the 19th century.
Of Hispanic origin, Mariano Baquero first trained in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts of San Fernando, created a century earlier in 1752. He then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the direction of Charles Gleyre (1806-74), a Swiss painter who succeeded Paul Delaroche in 1843. It was Gleyre who inspired the young Mariano with his passion for orientalism. Gleyre had spent a long period in Egypt and Lebanon from 1834 to 1837. Les Illusions perdues (1843, Paris, Louvre Museum) bears witness to this journey. Back in Spain, Mariano Baquero exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts from 1860. Like his master Gleyre, Baquero possesses "the talent to lend a precarious existence to the most fleeting dreams, the most unbridled of thoughts." (Charles Clement). Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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MARIANO BAQUERO (Aranjuez, 1838 1890)
LA RÊVEUSE AU TAMBOURIN Watercolour and gouache highlights on paper
Circa 1890
Signed lower right
63 x 100 cm
This watercolour, Baquero's preferred medium, represents a tambourine player languishing on carpets and large cushions. The interior is strewn with everyday objects: ewer on its tray, Egyptian wolf skin, velvet mules embroidered with gold and silver threads, flowers, perfume burner... Seized in the middle of a dream, the young woman's gaze refers itself to this dream of the East that was Orientalism in the 19th century.
Of Hispanic origin, Mariano Baquero first trained in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts of San Fernando, created a century earlier in 1752. He then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the direction of Charles Gleyre (1806-74), a Swiss painter who succeeded Paul Delaroche in 1843. It was Gleyre who inspired the young Mariano with his passion for orientalism. Gleyre had spent a long period in Egypt and Lebanon from 1834 to 1837. Les Illusions perdues (1843, Paris, Louvre Museum) bears witness to this journey. Back in Spain, Mariano Baquero exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts from 1860. Like his master Gleyre, Baquero possesses "the talent to lend a precarious existence to the most fleeting dreams, the most unbridled of thoughts." (Charles Clement). Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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