Marià Fortuny i Marsal (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny, was the leading Catalan painter of his day, with an international reputation. His brief career encompassed works on a variety of subjects common in the art of the period, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military painting of Spanish imperial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color. Source: Wikipedia (en)