Jose Villegas y Cordero Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"The Tennis Player"
Title: The Tennis Player
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 16 x 30 in | Image Size: 12 x 26 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Jose Villegas y Cordero was a Spanish painter, born in Sevilla (1844-1921). At 16 he sold his first work in the Seville World Fair. He studied for several years in Madrid, where he often went to the Prado Museum to copy to Velazquez and his technique acquired the spontaneity and the use of colour of Velazquez.
Jose was greatly impressed with Fortuny’s Orientalist works He was greatly impressed with Fortuny’s Orientalist works, and was prompted to go to Morocco with Francisco Peralto del Campo, an artist now best known for his Venetian subjects. Later in life Villegas was named head of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, then becoming director of the Prado Museum in Madrid. His paintings are represented in many important collections and national museums, including the Museum of Buffalo in America, Florence, Madrid, Munich, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Stockholm and Stuttgart.
