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. Works for the new museum. Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos

Portrait Exhibition Luis Truan Lugeon
Until February 27

Portrait Luis Truan Lugeon. Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos

With the introduction of this portrait, the Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos initiated a program of exhibitions aimed to present the works recently acquired for the future Museum of Gijon. The aim of the new museum, to be installed in the former tobacco factory, is to narrate the history of the city, its social, economic and cultural development, artistic creation as a thread.
Portrait of Luis Truan Lugeon, oil on canvas painted by Silbain Leclercq in 1884, has been donated by Conrado Truan. This work will form the core exhibition dedicated to the industrial arts, which acquired an extraordinary force in the nineteenth Gijón with the installation of the glass factory "Industry" (1844) and china "La Asturiana" (1874). These centers were critical to the economic development of the city and its vital contribution to the progress of English industrial arts.


Luis Truan, along with Mariano Pola and Anselmo Cifuentes, he founded the glass factory "Industry." Of Swiss origin, was responsible for the technical management of the factory, while their wives were in charge of administrative management.

In this work, although it is a posthumous portrait based on a photograph, it is evident that the painter had knowledge of the model, under whom he worked at the factory Gijon. Leclercq was Silbain operator "Industry", where he lost an eye, so had to abandon his profession and devote himself to painting. After completing his art training in France, when he returned to Gijón, Anselmo Cifuentes commissioned portraits of the three founding partners to preside over the living exhibition of the glass factory, which outlined the most important art pieces.