Follower of Eugenio Lucas Velázquez

Follower of EUGENIO LUCAS VELÁZQUEZ (Madrid, 1817 - 1870).
"Goyaesque scene.
Oil on canvas.
Measurements: 54 x 61 cm; 75 x 81 cm (frame).
Scene starring two men and a woman of low social extraction, faithfully following the style and critical and dark vision of his indirect master, Francisco de Goya. Thus, although it portrays an oppressive, dark and suffocating environment, despite being a landscape, it is rich in chiaroscuro in the baroque style, illuminated by a tenebrist light, with violent hallmarks of light and shadow, which gives the scene a certain dramatic theatricality. This expressive violence is also evident in the brushstroke itself, loose and very impastoed, sinuous and changing, which becomes the protagonist of the composition as much as the light, the dusty atmosphere or even the caricatured faces of the characters.
Mentioned since the 19th century as Eugenio Lucas Padilla, or Eugenio Lucas the Elder, he was the Spanish Romantic artist who best understood Goya's art. Trained in the neoclassicism of the Academy of San Fernando, he soon turned his training around and dedicated himself to the study of Velázquez and, above all, Goya, whose works he admired and copied in the Prado Museum. In Goya's painting, Lucas Velázquez found the starting point to develop an imaginative personal painting, of fantastic visions and unleashed passions, within the purest romantic style. He also took the subject matter from Goya, and painted scenes of the Inquisition, covens, pilgrimages and bullfights. He also painted, in 1850, the now disappeared ceiling of the Royal Theater of Madrid, and later he was named honorary chamber painter and knight of the order of Carlos III by Queen Isabel II. As a good romantic, he made several trips, among which his stays in Italy, Morocco and Paris stand out.