Francisco Miralles trained in Barcelona in the studio of Ramón Martí Alsina, where he was a fellow disciple of the first generation of Catalan realists. Settled in Paris between 1863 and 1866, it is possible that he studied with Courbet on the advice of Alsina, who also trained with him. Due to these influences, his youthful style, until the end of the seventies, is still vigorously realistic. Later he evolved towards a style of feminine elegance, typically fin-de-siècle, with a Fortunyist-influenced technique. In Paris he popularized a refined style, centered mainly on costumbrist themes of bourgeois life and high society, mainly featuring female characters. He participated in the Salon des Artistes Français, in Paris, between 187...