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Ricardo de Madrazo
Ricardo de Madrazo
Coming from a famous family of Spanish painters, and a follower of Mariano Fortuny – married to his sister Cecilia in 1867 – he lived between Madrid, Rome and Paris and travelled to Morocco, the country from which he drew inspiration for his Orientalist paintings.
A representative of the colony of Italian artists in Rome, he frequented all the Italian painters who were followers of Fortuny, of whom he became friend first and brother-in-law later, as Mariano married his sister Cecilia. When the newlyweds moved to Rome, the young man followed them, then lived with them in Paris, and Rome again, until the sudden death of his brother-in-law in 1874, at the age of only thirty-six.
The bond with his brother-in-law led him to undertake his first trip to Morocco, which inspired the numerous Orientalist-themed works of both of them.
After the Catalan painter’s sudden death, he returned briefly to Madrid, then stayed in Granada, Morocco and Venice, where his widowed sister moved.
In auctions, Ricardo de Madrazo covers a price range from €400 for small costumed watercolours to an auction record of €203,520 for a genre oil on canvas with sumptuous chromaticism. The record dates back to 1988, whereas today’s taste brings its quotations to lower prices.
