"Flower Stall" notebook

Lined paper. Stapled binding. A5 (15 x 21 cm). 32 sheets (64 pages).

Flower Stall (1887), de María Luisa de la Riva y Callol de Muñoz, is perhaps the most ambitious composition by one of the painters who enjoyed the greatest public recognition in 19th-century Spain. Specialising in flower painting, she fought hard to achieve fame and managed to separate herself as an artist from her husband, the painter Domingo Muñoz Cuesta. This makes her one of the protagonists of the first major episode in the professionalisation of women painters on the peninsula.