Emilio Sánchez Perrier

EMILIO SÁNCHEZ PERRIER (Seville, 1855 - Granada, 1907).
"View of the Cartuja Factory from the Guadalquivir".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 44 x 75 cm.

The theme of the city of Seville interviewed in the distance from the waters of the Guadalquivir was taken in numerous occasions by Emilio Sanchez Perrier. In this magnificent painting, the profile of the towers of La Cartuja are outlined in front of a softly iridescent sky, under the lights of the sunset. The waters of the river flow in harmonious counterpoints of gray and glaucous. Sánchez Perrier's work focuses on painting landscapes and aquatic scenes. His style evolved from the mystical post-romanticism of the Andalusian school of the early 19th century to the more luminous realism of Barbizon and the early impressionists. Together with the Sevillian Luis Jiménez Aranda, whom he visited when he settled in Pontoise, they were the main Spanish landscape painters active in Paris in the eighties. In the work shown here, the influence of the Barbizon School can be felt, although his technique is more meticulous and his atmosphere more luminous.

Painter and watercolorist, his favorite subjects were landscapes and orientalist themes. He began his training at the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer and Eduardo Cano, as well as Carlos de Haes, and later at the San Fernando School in Madrid. Later he moved to Paris to broaden his knowledge, and entered the workshop of Auguste Boulard. He came into contact with the Barbizon school, and used to frequent the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Felix Ziem. He dedicated himself to painting from life the landscapes of Fontainebleau and Barbizon, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and at the Paris Salon. He returns to Spain in 1890, and founds a colony of landscape painters in Alcalá de Guadaira, province of Seville. He traveled frequently to Granada, where he worked with Martín Rico. He was a Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, a member of the French General Society of Fine Arts and of the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville. He participated in numerous exhibitions and won several awards, including the honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1886, the gold medal at the Cadiz Exhibition of 1879, and second medal at the National Exhibition of 1890 and the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889. He is represented in the Prado Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of Malaga and Seville, the Boston Harbor Museum, the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, the Camille Pissarro of Pontoise (France), and in collections such as the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Antonio Plata, the Mariano Bellver, the Valentín Carrasco, El Monte and the London M. Newman and MacConnal-Mason, among many others.