The Musical Party Poster

Born in Madrid in 1852, he studies at the San Fernando School of Art. He moves to Paris in 1872, where he gets in touch with the Spanish artistic colony, turning up regularly at the gatherings held by Raimundo de Madrazo and Leon Bonnat. He marries the painter Josefina Corchon Diaque, and lives for a season in Rome (see SPR). The production of his long stay in Paris includes young women, orientalism, and city life scenes (Le dejeuner sur l’herbe & l.a partie de canotage). After his debut at the Salon of 1873 with “Toast a la patrie”, he shows regularly at that annual event, and his works win prizes at exhibitions in London, Berlin and Bordeaux.