Domingo Muñoz Cuesta

DOMINGO MUÑOZ CUESTA (Madrid, 1850 - 1935).
"Soldier with the band of Carlos III".
Mixed media on postcard.
Signed.
Measurements: 14 x 9 cm.
Muñoz Cuesta was formed in the School of San Fernando and with Francisco Domingo. In 1876 he is awarded in the contest of "La Ilustración Española y Americana", and the following year he is presented for the first time to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. He resides in Rome from 1880, where his work will gather the influence of Vicente Palmaroli. From Italy he sends canvases to Spain, to exhibitions such as that of the Círculo Artístico de Madrid, obtaining notable success. In these years, moved by an offer from the French art dealer Goupil, he moved to Paris, where he settled in 1884. There he won a prize at the Salon of the same year, and soon opened his own studio, where he had as disciples painters of the stature of the Alvarez Dumont brothers. In 1899 he spends a season in the Guadarrama mountain range, in order to take notes for the paintings on Spanish themes that he would later paint in Paris. During these years he continued to participate in the Nationals of Madrid, where he obtained a second medal in 1901. Shortly after he returned to Spain, and in his last years he was named Knight of the Order of Carlos II. Domingo Muñoz Cuesta is represented in museums such as the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the Army Museum in Madrid or La Casa del Ángel in Málaga, as well as in many prestigious private collections, both in Spain and abroad.