European school of the late nineteenth century.... Lot n° 29

European school of the late nineteenth century. "Musketeers", 1894. Pair of oil paintings on panel. Signed and dated. Measurements: Portraits and scenes of musketeers were very popular among the bourgeois clientele of the nineteenth century, within a context still heir to romanticism, which sought in the idealized recreation of the past itself a way of escape from everyday reality. Numerous painters of the time worked along these lines, seeking to capture with the greatest possible verism scenes of the past recreated with precise attention to detail, worked with a language of academic roots. This type of scenes starring musketeers are part of the genre of casacón painting, scenes worked with a special narrative and descriptive eagerness, which in Spain will have Velázquez and his contemporaries as the main formal reference. The pair of panels in question, however, represent two portraits of musketeers, perfectly defined in their gestures and clothing.