Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta was a Spanish painter from 1841-1920. He was trained academically by his father Federico de Madrazo y Kentz and Leon Cogniet in Paris. However, he was influenced by Alfred Stevens and Mariano Fortuny y Marsal to paint small, intimate genre scenes rather than historical paintings. He lived in Paris and New York and rarely participated in Spanish art exhibitions. His characteristic works depicted female portraits and elegant genre scenes with soft tones and suggestive poses, reflecting Rococo and Japanese influences. They expressed an aristocratic or bourgeois ideal of refined sensuality. American collectors purchased his works for high prices.

1. Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta Spanish artist 1841 - 1920 By: Rodica Statescu Surse: INTERNET Tranzitie automata

2. Bella y Canto

3. Portrait of a Woman

4. The Bouquet

5. Andalucian Woman, 1898

6. Portrait of a Lady

7. The Music Lesson

8. Participants a une masquarade

9. Hot Chocolate

10. Portrait of a Lady in Pink Ribbons

11. La Toilette

12. A Rest Along the Way

13. The Reluctant Mistress

14. Pierette

15. Aline Masson, the Artist's Model

16. A Portrait of Aline Masson Leaning on a Sofa

17. An Elegant Beauty

18. The Love Letter

19. Lady With a Mask

20. Coming out of Church

21. A Portrait of Aline Masson

22. The Model Aline Masson with a White Mantilla

23. Portrait of Aline Masson in Blue

24. Aline Masson vestida de novia

25. A Country Maid After the Ball

26. Two Spanish Women

27. Vanity

28. Preparing for the Costume Bal

29. A Portrait of Mrs. James Leight Coleman

30. Reclining Lady

31. Lady with Guitar Marquise d'Hervey Saint-Denys

32. Manuela de Errazu

33. After the Bath

34. Young Lady with a Mask and Glass of Absinthe

35. FOND MEMORIES

36. Aline sosteniendo un sombrero

37. Portrait of a young girl in pink dress

38. Portrait of Aline Mason

40. A favourite Piece

42. Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta 1841-1920 Spanish Son of Federico de Madrazo y Kentz. Because of his ability and training with his father, Federico, in the Real Academia de S Fernando in Madrid and with Leon Cogniet in Paris, he seemed destined to continue the family tradition of academic painting. However, due to the influence of the Belgian Alfred Stevens, of his brother-in-law, Mariano Jose Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal, and the Parisian environment, he exchanged dry historical painting for the preciousness of the tableautin, the small, intimate genre painting. He lived in Paris and New York and became so remote from Spanish artistic life that he and Fortuny y Marsal were the only Spanish artists not to participate in any national exhibition, and because of this the Spanish state never directly acquired their works. In 1882, with Giuseppe De Nittis, Stevens and the gallery owner Georges Petit, he co-founded the Exposition Internationale de Peinture, designed to promote foreign artists in Paris. Madrazo Garreta most characteristic works are the female portrait and the witty and elegant genre painting, with soft, delicate tones and suggestive poses. The influence of the Rococo and of Japanese art is reflected in his painting, which expresses an exquisite aristocratic or bourgeois ideal, the illusion of a refined, sensual and superficial life. Consequently, his works are also described as representing the Parisian seraglio. American collectors paid high prices for his paintings, for example Alexander Turney Stewart bought Lady with a Parrot; Carnival Festival (1878) was purchased by L. Wolfe; and Girls at the Window (1875) was bought by J. W. Vanderbilt, the last two now being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His portraits were better received in Spain although because of collectors such as Ramen de Errazu (d 1909), the Museo del Prado has a good number of his paintings (e.g. After the Bath).