Spanish school, after MANUEL DOMÍNGUEZ SÁNCHEZ... Lot 54
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Spanish school, after MANUEL DOMÍNGUEZ SÁNCHEZ (Madrid, 1840- 1906); XIX century.
"Seneca, after opening his veins".
Oil on panel.
Measurements: 23.5 x 36 cm; 40 x 51 cm (frame).
This work follows the models of the painting by Domínguez Sánchez, which is in the collection of the Prado Museum. The Museum describes the piece in this way "Manuel Domínguez chose a plot from ancient Rome, although linked to a great extent to the Hispanic world by having as its protagonist the Cordovan philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4-65 AD), master of Emperor Nero, who ordered his death accusing him of having participated in Pison's conspiracy against him. Mocking the execution of the imperial order as contempt for Nero, Seneca decided to take his own life. To do so, he opened his veins and got into a bathtub, although he finally died from inhaling the vapors of the bath. The success that this painting had in its time resided fundamentally in the modernity of the severe monumentality of its composition, as well as in its elegant simplicity in the disposition of the figures, of classical features, located in a wide interior space, of rich and grandiose architecture".
The figures that compose it, harmony that can also be appreciated in the faces, serene, in the attitudes and in the palette chosen by the painter, very lively, but without excessive hallmarks in the coloring or in the light sources used. The historical theme of the painting is set in a glorious past related to the history of the painter's country, Spain, and can be related to the pictorial Historicism of the nineteenth century, the main current at the time, linked to the Academies of Fine Arts. The term "historicism" (Historismus) was coined by the German philosopher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. Over time, what historicism is and how it is practiced has taken on different and divergent meanings. Elements of historicism appear in the writings of French essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) and Italian philosopher GB Vico (1668-1744), and were more fully developed with the dialectics of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), influential in 19th-century Europe.
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