{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":14641,"auction_id":14,"set_id":26,"lot_number":"46","artist":"Philippine School (19ᵗʰ Century)","title":"After Félix Resurrección Hidalgo El Aguador (The Water Carrier)","starting_price":2000000,"signed_dated":"ca. 1890","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"49 1/2\" x 35 1/2\" (126 cm x 90 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"THE INFINITE CHARM OF THE 19TH CENTURY \nTHE SCHOOL OF FÉLIX RESURRECCIÓN HIDALGO \nby LISA GUERRERO NAKPIL
\n\nThis infinitely charming work is best described as from the school of Félix Resurrección Hidalgo (1855 1913), from his Philippine works in that age of his nascent talent in the 1870s.
\nFélix Resurrección Hidalgo’s first paintings of note were paisajes country scenes of his beloved country. These would be exhibited at a career defining show at the Tea tro Circo de Bilibid and were destined for exhibition at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia.
\nOne of the works included in the show was the famous La Banca, depicting a lady delicately clambering onto a river boat, attended to be a boatman, oar poised aloft. A washerwoman and her child wait patiently behind her on shore.
\nThese prototypes of late 19th century Manila come alive once again in this particular work that features another tableau by the water. In it is a slightly older 'aguador' or water carrier, selling his precious liquid at the river’s edge from fairly well etched wooden buckets. He is reminiscent of Hidalgo’s male figures in both La Banca and the La Pescador de Sacag (now in the collection of the Prado Museum.) A woman and her child, each carrying an earthenware pot, renowned for preserving the cool temperature and sweetness of water, are poised to take their share. The older female, dressed in indigo and red, also draws from Hidalgo’s La Vendadora de Lanzones (The Lanzones Vendor), also to be found in the National Museum of Spain.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Philippine School (19ᵗʰ Century) After Félix Resurrección Hidalgo El Aguador (The Water Carrier) ca. 1890 oil on canvas 49 1/2\" x 35 1/2\" (126 cm x 90 cm)