Attributed to Genaro Pérez de Villaamil (Spanish, 1807-1854)

El Transparente, Toledo Cathedral

Details

Attributed to Genaro Pérez de Villaamil (Spanish, 1807-1854)
El Transparente, Toledo Cathedral
with signature 'D Roberts' (lower right)
oil and mixed media on canvas
36 x 24 in. (91.5 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870), Ambassador to Madrid (1833-1839).
with Agnew's, Manchester.
Meteyard, London, where acquired on 3 December 1942.

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Lot Essay

A print of the same composition appears in Villamil's famous travel book España artistica y monumental. Vistas y descripción de los sitios y monumentos más notables de España (G. Pérez Villaamil and Don P. de la Escosura eds., Paris, 1842, vol. I). Please refer to lot 335.
Villaamil and David Roberts met in Seville in 1833. The English artist highly influenced the style of Villaamil and he surely played an important role in the creation of the above-mentioned album of etchings. The production of this volume was probably inspired by the publication of Roberts' Picturesque Sketches in Spain in 1837.

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