Title: A Romance
Artist: Santiago Rusiñol (Spanish [Catalan], 1861-1931)
Date: 1894
Genre: genre art
Movement: Modernisme
Period: Belle Époque
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 89.5 cm (35.2 in) high x 111 cm (43.7 in) wide
Location: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The two figures depicted here are Erik Satie, the noted French pianist and composer, and Stéphanie Nantas. The setting is Paris, where Rusiñol spent much of his time in the 1890s.
Santiago Rusiñol was enormously prolific as a painter (leaving over a thousand completed canvases), poet, playwright, and journalist. He is considered a leading figure within the Modernisme movement in Catalonia, which responded to artistic and cultural developments in France and elsewhere.