CARLOS DE HAES - COMPLETE ECTHING COLLECTION - 1898

Subject: Book from the late 19th century with 55 landscape engravings made by Carlos de Haes.

Publication: Madrid, National Calcography, 1898. First edition.

Technique: Etching.

Description: Album made up of 55 prints, some of them signed with the 'CH' monogram. Cover that gives title to the series ('Ensayos') with tall grasses and rock on which the title is read and a slab with the signature of Carlos de Haes. It also includes a portrait of the painter by Ricardo de los Ríos with the date 1898 and a printed cover on original cardboard. Most of the prints are landscapes and rural houses, bridges, walls, mills, roads and reefs. It includes the well-known prints of the juggling clown with mask in profile, 'El cabrero' and 'La noria'.

Notes: Publication that became a unique example of the etching treatise that was never written in Spain.

Artist Biography: Carlos de Haes (Brussels, 1826-Madrid, 1898) was a painter of Belgian origin. A crisis in the family economy forced the Haes to move to Spain. He settled in Malaga in 1835, where after a few years he began his artistic journey with the academic painter Luis de la Cruz. In 1850, he decided to continue his training in his native land studying the great Flemish masters of landscape, at the same time establishing contact with the European avant-garde that gathered in Brussels around the annual exhibitions at the Salons of the Belgian capital. His training alongside the landscape painter Joseph Quinaux determined his encounter with outdoor painting, to which he devoted himself with passion and defined his artistic production in its entirety.

The coincidence in time of the attraction exerted in Haes by the discovery of the places and wild nature around the Monasterio de Piedra and the call for opposition to the landscape plaza of the Higher School of Painting of the Real Aacademia de San Fernando, determined his permanence in Spain and his definitive establishment by obtaining the aforementioned chair from which he would train an entire generation of landscape painters in the practice of outdoor painting. Parallel to his teaching, he continued with his artistic production, and won the first medal at the National Exhibition with a theme precisely taken in the vicinity of the Monasterio de Piedra. In 1860 he was appointed full academician of the Academy of San Fernando.

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