ANTONIO MARÍA ESQUIVEL AND LOS NIÑOS: PAINTING, RHETORIC AND NATURAL EDUCATION IN SPANISH 19TH CENTURY

ABSTRACT

The portrait of the boys Raimundo Roberto and Fernando José, sons of Infanta Josefa Fernanda de Borbón, made by Antonio María Esquivel Y Suárez de Urbina in the mid-nineteenth century, and belonging to the collection of the Prado Museum, in Madrid, reveals interesting connections with the Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophy of natural education, although the painter conveniently sought much more to illustrate it than to debate it.

KEYWORDS
Rhetoric; Painting; Natural Education; Freedom