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Paisaje belga
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Agustín Riancho (Entrambasmestas, Cantabria, 1841 – Ontaneda, Cantabria, 1929)
Title: Paisaje belga (Belgian Landscape)
Technique: oil on canvas
Size: 43,5 x 59,5 cm
Year: 1874
Just like the other two works by Riancho in the collection, this painting is representative of the artist’s mature period in Belgium, when he was in contact with the modernising landscape trends influenced by the French realistic painters. All three works depict similar motifs: a village on the banks of a river with several waterborne vessels. The motif of a large tree predominates in the composition and is particularly prominent in this work; the energetic execution of the trunk and branches, whose reddish-brown colour alludes to the autumn, is also reminiscent of the works of Théodore Rousseau. He depicts several small figures, with average canon of proportion and somewhat static, as was common in his artistic output.
The palette, in which grey, ochre and greenish tones predominate, also includes the presence of the dark tones and black that were so common in his paintings, which are also brightened by lighter colours on small surfaces.
This work was acquired in the Galería Jorge Juan in Madrid in 2018.