'Carrera Cuadrera' -- campamento militar cerca de Montevideo (1845)

Details

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858)
'Carrera Cuadrera' -- campamento militar cerca de Montevideo (1845)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 26¾in. (46 x 68cm.)

Provenance

Bonifacio del Carril, Buenos Aires.
Mario Hirsch, Buenos Aires.

Literature

B. del Carril, Artistas Extranjeros en la Argentina Mauricio Rugendas (exhibition catalogue, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes) Buenos Aires, 1966, p.57, illustrated in colour cat. no. 101 ('Carrera Cuadrera' and where described as signed with initials 'M.R.' (lower left) and dimensions incorrectly given as 44.5 x 55cm.).
H. Beemelemans, 'El Uruguay en la obra del pintor alemán Juan Mauricio Rugendas' in Revista Histórica, Museo Histórico de Montevideo, Montevideo, 1979, no.51, pp.1048-1066, no.60.
P. Diener, Rugendas. 1802-1858. Catálogo Razonado de la obra, Augsburg, 1997, p.362, AU-O 10.

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Lot Essay

Identified by Bonifacio del Carril in 1966, who gave the picture its title 'Carrera Cuadrera', indicating that it represents a military encampment near to Montevideo, and mentioned by Beemelmans in 1979 in an article desribing Rugendas's drawings of soldiers in Uruguay. Del Carril's title was adopted by Diener in the catalogue raisonné. 'The technique of this oil painting fits with Rugendas's works, done during his stay in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, such as 'Gauchos y caballos salvajes' ('Gauchos and wild horses' -- cat. nr AU-O-11) or some of the late versions of 'El Rapto' (cat. nrs AC-O-7 and 8). Consequently it should be dated 1845.' (Pablo Diener, private communication, August 2007)

We are grateful to Dr Pablo Diener for the above information.

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