Mariano Fortuny

(1838–1874) spansk målare

Mariano Fortuny (Spain, 1838–1874) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Mariano Fortuny belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

Mariano Fortuny was born in Reus and died in Rome. Mariano Fortuny trained at Our Lady of Charity. The teachers included Claudi Lorenzale and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Wikidata associates Mariano Fortuny with Romantic painting and Orientalism. The students included Harrington Fitzgerald.

The best-known works include ‘La Batalla de Tetuan’, ‘The Bullfighter's Salute’, ‘Bullfight. Wounded Picador’, and ‘The Spanish Wedding’. The catalogue has 78 works by Mariano Fortuny with free images. The dated works span the years 1854–1878. Works by Mariano Fortuny are held by several collections, among them Kataloniens nationella konstmuseum, Pradomuseet, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, and Hispanic Society of America. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Joaquín Agrasot y Juan, José Jiménez Aranda, Serafín Avendaño, Heinrich Lang, and Antoni Caba Casamitjana.

• Impressionism
• The Odalisque
• The Spanish Wedding
• Nude Old Man in the Sun
• La Batalla de Tetuan