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JUAN LUNA Y NOVICIO Badoc, Philippines 1857 - Hong-Kong 1899 “Ciociaro. 1884” Oil on canvas Signed and dated in Rome Measurements 45.5 x 38.4 cm Origin: - Important collection of Lima, Peru. - Private collection, Madrid. This work belongs to a small group of portraits of quick and vibrant brushstrokes made in nature when the Filipino artist enjoyed a scholarship to study at the Academia Española de Bellas Artes in Rome (1878-1884). The Shepherd Boy painting (oil on canvas, 48.5 x 39 cm) auctioned at Sotheby's Singapore in April 2005 presents the same stylistic characteristics of Ciociaro. In both works the pictorial treatment denotes a great economy of means solved by an energetic but accurate brushstrokes that are circumscribed only to the represented model, leaving part of the ends of the canvas unpainted. In the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes of 1884 in Madrid he obtains a first class medal with the work Spolarium (National Museum of the Philippines, Manila) with great public and critical success that supposed the definitive takeoff to his career.