Additional information
| Artist | Garrido |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Category | European |
ArtistGarrido, Eduardo Leon
Artist Years1856-1949
Artist NationalitySpanish
TitlePortrait of a Young Man with Ceramic Pot
Yearca. 1885
MediumPainting > Oil
DimensionsCanvas: 31 X 25 inches
Description
Oil on canvas, unsigned, canvas trimmed to image and laid down onto new canvas and stretched.
Accession NumberRC1498
NotesEduardo León Garrido (Madrid, 1856 – Caen, 1949) was a Spanish painter. He began his training at the Escuela Superior de Pintura in Madrid and as a disciple in the workshop of Vicente Palmaroli. Thanks to a scholarship granted by the Provincial Council of Madrid, he traveled to Paris where he went to the workshop of Raimundo Madrazo. He later traveled to Italy, contacting in Venice with Spanish painters of the stature of Mariano Fortuny and Martín Rico. In 1905 he was appointed professor at the Varennes School of Arts and VarennesCrafts, remaining in France for the rest of his life. His son Louis-Édouard Garrido was also a painter.
His style is influenced by Impressionism and for some critics he bears similarities to Manet's. His work is mainly dedicated to customist subjects, portraits of elegant women dressed in Belle Époque clothes and the reproduction of gallant scenes. He achieved great success in his time and exhibited in Paris, London and Munich.
Some of his canvases can be seen in the Museo del Prado (Madrid), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina), Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and private collections such as the Bellver Collection in Seville.
(source: wikipedia.org)