Luis Jimenez Aranda (Seville, 1845 - Pontoise, France, 1928). Untitled. Watercolor on paper. Presents damages in the frame. Signed and located in the lower right area.

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LUIS JIMENEZ ARANDA (Seville, 1845 - Pontoise, France, 1928). Untitled. Watercolor on paper. Presents damages in the frame. Signed and located in the lower right area. Measurements: 20 x 30 cm; 39 x 49 cm (frame). Luis Jiménez Aranda initiates his formation of the hand of his brothers José and Manuel. Then he continued his studies in the Academy of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría of Seville, where he had Eduardo Cano de la Peña as his teacher. In 1867 he went to Rome to broaden his knowledge, and in 1876 he settled in Pontoise, near Paris, finally becoming a French citizen. Throughout his career he took part in various official exhibitions both in France and Spain, and was also awarded a prize at the Universal Exposition in Chicago (1893). He also took part in the Paris Salons and participated in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he obtained an honorable mention in 1864 and first medal in 1892, with the work "La visita del médico". This same canvas earned him the great medal of honor at the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1889. He specialized in the historical genre, although he also made costumbrist works, always with a veristic style where the importance of the drawing stands out, as a result of the influence of his brother José. Luis Jiménez Aranda is represented in the Prado Museum, the Meadows Museum of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, among other institutions, as well as in various private collections.