CARLOS DE HAES (1829-1898)
Pico de los Cabrones (2,552 m - 8,372 ft)
Spain (Asturias/León)
In Picos de Europa, oil on canvas, 1876, Museo nacional del Prado
The mountain The Pico de los Cabrones (2,552 m-8,372ft) is a mountain in the north of Spain located in the Central massif of the Picos de Europa or massif of the Urrieles, in the division of the Principality of Asturias and the province of León. The first known ascent to the summit was made by Emilio Ribera Pou and Carlos Mier in 1933. The silhouette of the peak of Los Cabrones, together with its spiers dominates spectacularly on the Jou de los Cabrones, where the mountain refuge of the same name located at 2100 m.
The summit is part of the ridge Cabrones-Cerredo (, one of the most alpine of the Picos de Europa, which connects the peak of Los Cabrones and the highest peak, the Torrecerredo peak of 2650 m. The first crossing to the ridge was completed by the Regil brothers on August 19, 1958.
The painter
The spanish painter Carlos Sebastián Pedro Hubert de Haes was noted for the Realism in his landscapes, and was considered to be the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work". He was cited along with Jenaro Perez Villaamil and Aureliano de Beruete as one of the three Spanish grand masters of landscape painting, the latter of which was his pupil.
In the 1850s, Haes was involved in the rise of the Realist school of landscape. Coincidentally his landscape and wildlife paintings of the Monasterio de Piedra occurred at the time of an academic opening for the Painting School of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the selection to be made by a landscape competition. In 1857 he became the first professor of landscape painting, the first in Spain to teach painting directly from nature. In 1860, he became an Academic at the Royal Academy. In 1876, he presented at the National Exhibition with La Canal de Mancorbo en los Picos de Europa ("The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa") later acquired by the Spanish state to be part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, because of its significance as a realistic Spanish landscape painting.
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