MARIA LUISA DE LA RIVA Y CALLOL DE MUÑOZ (SPANISH, 1859-1926)
Still life of oranges, pomegranates, and grapes on a marble table
signed 'Maria Luisa de la Riva Callol de Muñoz, 1892' (lower right)
oil on canvas
60 x 76 cm. (23 1/2 x 30 in.)

María Luisa de la Riva y Callol de Muñoz was a renouned Spanish painter who specialised in still life. She was a student of sculptor Mariano Bellver y Collazos and the painters Antonio Pérez Rubio (Navalcarnero, Madrid 1822-Madrid, 1888), and Sebastián Gessa y Arias. Notably she was considered to have been one of the only Spanish artists to create a training studio for female painters.

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