Eduardo León Garrido was born in Madrid son of the politician and painter Fernando Garrido Tortosa, he trained with the prestigious painters Federigo de Madrazo and Vincente Palmaroli, studying under their tutelage in Paris and Rome respectively. Garrido began to show his works at the Paris Salon in 1875, where he won a grant from the Madrid Provincial Government to continue his studies there.

A painter par excellence of conversation pieces set in 18th Century interiors, Garrido played to the nostalgia for the previous century, which had come to assume an almost mythic significance for a bourgeois Europe in the wake of revolution. Well-chronicled in the writings of brothers Edmund and Jules de Goncourt, the preceding century had come to be mythologized as an epoque of elegance, a characteristic many found lacking at the time. The new rich in particular looked back in adulation of the society of yesteryear in which the aristocrat held sway. Emulation of patrician taste and acquisition of social respectability were the quintessence of paintings such as The Palace Ball, which depicted elegant people in such rococo surroundings as Versailles and Fontainbleau, venues Garrido was able to sketch on location.

A smaller oil on panel by Eduardo León Garrido titled "Le Café du Commerce" (10 1/4 inches by 13 5/8 inches - 26 cm by 34.5 cm) was sold at Christie's London, King Street on November 18, 2004, Sale 6961 Lot 2 for £31,070 ($57,728 USD)

 

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