Follower of EUGENIO LUCAS VELÃZQUEZ (Madrid, 1817 - 1870), pps.s.XX.
"Goyaesque scenes".
Two ink drawings on old paper.
Apocryphal signature and date "E. Lucas, 1862".
Measurements: 19 x 30 cm; 56 x 68 x 8 cm (frame).
Pair of drawings of Goyaesque inspiration, recreating popular types in the manner of Eugenio Lucas. Lucas was the Spanish romantic artist who best understood Goya's painting. Trained in the neoclassicism of the San Fernando Academy, he soon turned his training around and devoted himself to studying Velázquez and, above all, Goya, whose works he admired and copied in the Prado Museum. On the basis of the master, Lucas developed a personal and imaginative style of painting, with fantastic visions and unleashed passions. Apart from his Goyaesque themes, in 1850 he painted the ceiling of the Teatro Real in Madrid, which no longer exists, and was later appointed honorary chamber painter and knight of the order of Charles III by Queen Isabella II. As a true Romantic, he made several trips, including stays in Italy, Morocco and Paris. He achieved great success as a genre painter and as a painter of fantastic and sinister scenes, although he was also an excellent landscape painter and portraitist. His work is well represented in the Prado Museum, and also in other centres such as the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Goya Museum in Castres (France).