# The River Manzanares

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BERUETE, Aureliano](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beruete-aureliano-rc8caa08213b22a>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 58 x 81 cm

## Commentary

Beruete was the pupil of Carlos de Haes who encouraged him to paint studies direct from nature before doing studio paintings of a relaxed kind from them. Beruete followed Haes in his preference for landscape, concentrating on the region around Madrid and Toledo. When the influence of French Impressionism made itself apparent, it was with a Castilian austerity rather than with the light, cheerful touch of the French. His colours used contrasts but retained an earthy quality, as in The River Manzanares.

## Related artworks

- [Hawthorn in Blossom](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beruete-aureliano-rc8caa08213b22a/hawthorn-in-blossom-r50cfdfdeaa15e2>)
- [The Banks of the Manzanares River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beruete-aureliano-rc8caa08213b22a/the-banks-of-the-manzanares-river-r23cb1eb4364d7a>)
- [The River Manzanares](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beruete-aureliano-rc8caa08213b22a/the-river-manzanares-r8b04e4c2f8019d>)
- [View of the Sierra de Guadarrama](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beruete-aureliano-rc8caa08213b22a/view-of-the-sierra-de-guadarrama-rdb2904ea432d28>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)