Oil on canvas signed low left by Jose Maria Tamburini. Framed with a gilded original frame. Size: 15 inches (h) x 18 3/4 inches (w) only canvas, 21 1/2 inches (h) x 29 1/2 inches (w) framedWho was Jose Maria Tamburini? He studied at the Llotja School with Antoni Caba in Barcelona, in Paris with Léon Bonnat and Rome and Naples, where he came in contact with Domenico Morelli or Gioacchino Toma.Again in Barcelona, he published several articles, critiques and drawings in La Vanguardia and L'Avenç, while exhibiting paintings in the Sala Parés.He was initially devoted to historical painting, with works such as El Comde de Urgel, taken prisoner by the men of King Fernando de Antequera (1891), but he was moving away from academic realism and orienting himself towards symbolism and pre-Raphaelism, endowing his works with a Literary air, in works like Harmonies of the forest of 1896.He exhibited his works on several occasions at the National Fine Arts Exhibitions held in Madrid and was a member of the Catalan Museums Board and professor at the Llotja School, as well as one of the co-founders of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia, in 1900.He also collaborated in several magazines like Album of Salín, Iris, Ilustració Catalana, the Artistic Illustration and Selected Leaves.Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information, pictures by email to: danyantiques@yahoo.com