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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The details of R. Tusquetz biography remain obscure. However, the Roman subject of the Russell-Cotes painting combined with the fact that in 1897 Tusquetz was elected Vice President of the Roman Associazione Artistica Internazionale' alongside the renowned watercolourist of Bohemian origins Ettore Roesler Franz (1845-1907), clearly places this little known painter in a significant context as a member of the large international community of artists active in Rome during the late nineteenth century. Ettore Roesler Franz was a close associate of many of the twenty-five members of the group of artists called the XXV della Campagnia Romana'. Like Tusquetz, they dedicated their activity to the depiction of the vanishing landscape of Rome and its environs in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when, following the unification of Italy in 1870, the Eternal City began to undergo enormous urban changes as it was turned into a European capital by the country's new Savoy monarchy. Inscribed "Roma", the Russell-Cotes painting depicts washerwomen by a river, probably the Tiber, in the countryside near Rome. It shows the artist's evident commitment to a realist approach and avoids descent into the picturesque. Its luminous and lucid style is close to the style of Roesler Franz as well as various members of the XXV della Campagnia Romana', for example Enrique Serra (1860-1918) and Johann Zhand (1854-1934). | Subjects: | landscape; place (Rome); figure; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tusquets Maignon, Ramon (Spanish painter, born 1837 or 1838, died 1904) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8465... | Go to resource |
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