Lot 172
  • 172

Aureliano de Beruete Madrid 1845-1912

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Aureliano de Beruete
  • Un Paisaje de El Escorial (Landscape in El Escorial)
  • signed A de Beruete l.r.; titled and dated 1886 on the stretcher

  • oil on canvas

  • 78.7 by 48cm., 31 by 19in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Madrid
Purchased by the present owner from the above in 1999

Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Municipal de Madrid, Madrid y la Sierra de Guadarrama, 1998 (illustrated in the catalogue)

Condition

Original canvas. There are some small spots of retouching in the sky towards the centre of the top edge and a spot in the rock to the centre right corresponding to a repair in the canvas. Apart from some fine craquelure and some tiny spots of paint loss in the sky, the work is in good overall condition. Held in a plaster moulded gilt frame with ebonised edges.
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