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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

PROCESIÓN DE SANTIAGO APÓSTOL, MADRID (PROCESSION OF SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE, MADRID)

PROCESIÓN DE SANTIAGO APÓSTOL, MADRID (PROCESSION OF SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE, MADRID)

23 by 39cm., 9 by 15 3/8 in.

signed, inscribed, and dated F. Pradilla Ortiz / Madrid / 1916 u.r.; signed, and inscribed Madrid Pintoresco, Procesión de Santiago Apóstol, Año 1916, Verbena del Distrito de Palacio, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz on the reverse

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Sale: Madrid, Durán, 17 May 1976, lot 62
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

EXHIBITED

Paris, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Peinture Espagnole Moderne, 1919, no. 251

LITERATURE

Carlos González & Montse Martí, Pintores Españoles en Roma (1850-1900), Barcelona, 1987, p. 165, illustrated in colour
Ana García Loranca & J. Ramón García-Rama, La Vida y Obra del Pintor Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Zaragoza, 1987, p. 347, no. 316; p. 151, illustrated

NOTE

The feast day of Saint James the Apostle, Patron Saint of Spain and the city of Santiago de Compostela, is celebrated on July 25 and the days following. In Santiago de Compostella, the city that bears the Apostle's name, religious pilgrimages, secular processions, bullfights and the famous La Fachada fireworks display, all combine to make this one of the country's most spectacular events.

Santiago de Compostella's fame originates with the life and death of St James the Apostle, son of Zebedee. Visiting Spain in the first century, he travelled throughout the country for seven years preaching the Christian Gospel to the heathen. Martyred for his Faith on his return to the Holy Land, his followers returned his remains to Santiago de Compostella where they lie to this day.

Pradilla was a leading member of the Spanish school in Rome who distinguished himself by his tremendous versatility as a painter. As Edward Prescott, writing in 1888, noted: 'Pradilla's talent is not confined to one channel. His landscapes are remarkable for their crisp freshness and colour, and his studies of animals would alone make him famous. He has also painted a series of small Carnival scenes, which in effect, and in vivid touches of colour laid on with the utmost boldness, are perfectly unique' ('Modern Spanish Art', Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1888, vol. 76, pp. 506-8).