# At the Vicarage [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FORTUNY Y MARSAL, Mariano]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on panel, 55 x 92 cm ## Commentary Fortuny espoused the Meissonier tradition of small-format genre pictures. His brushwork was more relaxed, and he aimed at a lightness of subject matter, rather than the evocative heaviness of the Spanish tradition. His technique was virtuoso, and he took delight in anecdotal detail. Fortuny's paintings, splendid in colour and rich in light effects, were particularly successful in France in the 1870s. In Spain, one of those who promoted Fortuny was Frederico de Madrazo \(1815-1894\), whose daughter Cecilia Fortuny married. It was during preparations for the wedding in 1870 that Fortuny had the idea for At the Vicarage, one of his most famous pictures. ## Related artworks - [Fortuny's Garden]() - [Nude on the Beach at Portici]() - [The Artist's Children in the Japanese Salon]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()