Century: 19th

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By the river

Fishing at the beach

One of the first painters to approach landscape directly from nature, en plein air. He started from rural naturalism at the workshop of his master, Ramon Martí Alsina, with whom he would remain friends, but he progressively stripped away the superfluous elements from the landscape, gradually evolving towards a freer, lighter and more modern approach.

Catalan landscape

Landscape with rocks

Paisatge amb tanca [Landscape with fence]

Nonell formed at the Llotja de Barcelona. Between the years 1894 and 1896 the landscape was the genre of the first years in Nonell’s work. He went to Sant Martí de Provençals, with his box and palette of colors to paint small landscapes, being part of the Sant Martí group, with Ricard Canals, Ramon Pitxot, […]

Landscape with cows and figures

Vayreda learnt from his master Ramon Martí i Alsina to depict open-air landscapes in a realistic setting. This painting is a pastoral scene featuring peasants and animals. It is a very representative work of the classical style in its years of pictorial plenitude (1877 to 1882). The painter composes in a general panorama to give […]

Landscape with sheep

Barcelona painter of English descent decided to go to Olot, to personally treat the painter he admired, Joaquim Vayreda. To go from Barcelona to Olot, a town that at the time was still walled, was a fifteen-hour journey. Influenced by the French realist painters of the Barbizon school, he also traveled to Paris on the […]

Landscape

He is perhaps the Catalan artist with the least work, with the least history and one of the most mentioned. Little work and little history because he committed suicide at the age of twenty, on February 17, 1901, in the Hippodrome restaurant in Paris. The reason: love sickness. He is one of the most mentioned […]

Around Montornès del Vallès

The landscape depicts a small forest, a path, a row of trees, some farmland and a mountain ridge. The composition is divided into two parts, the lower half with the road and vegetation and the upper half with the cloudy sky. In his pictorial language, the painter of this period moves away from the most […]