JOAQUÍN DIÉGUEZ DÍAZ. Emblem in honor of Fortuny and Rosales, pen and clary touches on paper.

Signed in ink with “JDZ” anagram and dated “93”, 1893.
20 x 20 cm approx.
28.5x28.5 cm. (frame)
Pencil annotation under “7”, probably a reference for the layout of the
publication where it was published
Very good state of conservation.
Detailed drawing in honor and memory of the two great painters of the 19th century, Eduardo
Rosales (Madrid, 1836-1873) and Marià Fortuny (Reus, 1836 — Rome, 1874), who died in
a year difference. Illustration probably of a text in memory of the artists in
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, perhaps of the Catalan Enlightenment, The
Artistic Illustration or Hispano-American Enlightenment. Dos Coronas de Llaurer
are intertwined. In the middle, at Filacteris, we read the names of both creators. A painter's palette
with brushes he remembers his vocation. A torch with a burning flame
alludes to their eternal memory. Two palms cross in the background.
Joaquín Diéguez y Díaz (Jaén 1860-1931). Painter of decorative paintings, drawing,
illustrator and writer active in Barcelona. He was trained early in Madrid,
Where it was recorded in the book of copyists at the Prado Museum in July 1876
constant as guarantor of the painter José Vallejo. In Barcelona, he first resided in the
Old road to the Cortes and then to Consejo de Ciento 304 street. Participated
to the Exhibition of the Watercolorist Center of the Martorell Museum of
Barcelona in 1885, with the works A Dream of Happiness and Yours Always Yours. It started
to publish literary articles in 1886 in La Revista de Belles Arts and collaborate
artistically from 1890 to La Ilustració Catalana.
As an illustrator, he collaborated with Pen and Pencil, The Illustration
Artistic, “The Spanish-American Enlightenment, The Black Cat”, made the
illustrations from the booklet A Visit to the Víctor Balaguer Museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú
(1893), Artistic iconography (1899), portrait of Alfonso XII in oleography (1900), a
portrait of the Pope in oleography (1903), the cover for Nami-*Ko (1904), The Mayans
(1905).