Santiago Rusiñol Barcelona 1861-Aranjuez 1931

Private Collection, Barcelona; thence by descent to the present owner

Barcelona, Sala Parés, 1921

Manuel Marinello, Las Noticias, 28 January 1921
El Diluvio, 19 January 1921
D'ací d'allà, February 1921, p. 92, illustrated
Gaseta de les Arts, III, 1 February 1926, p. 4, illustrated
Joan Cortès i Vidal, Santiago Rusiñol, Pintor, Barcelona, 1957, no. 28, illustrated
Josep de C. Laplana, La Pintura de Santiago Rusiñol. Obra Completa, vol. III, Barcelona, 2004; p. 117, no. 14.1.8, illustrated

 

 

The canvas has been relined. There are a few scattered specks of retouching visible under ultraviolet light, notably to the sky in the upper left and along the extreme top edge of the work. Apart from some faint craquelure the paint surface is overall in good condition. Held in a plaster moulded gilt frame.
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Rusiñol painted a series of vistas of Girona throughout the 1910s and 1920s. The present view, dating from 1918, from Sant Pere de Galligants in the north of the old town, shows the cathedral on the left, whose single nave, built in 1416 by Guillem Bofill, possesses the widest Gothic span in the Christian world. On the far right can be seen the unfinished Gothic bell tower of the Church of Sant Feliu.

Two related views, centering on the octagonal tower in the grounds of Sant Pere de Galligans (visible in the foreground of the present work) are in the Museu d'Art de Girona and the Museu Comarcal del Maresme, Mataró, respectively.