Théodore Géricault
In Pérez Galdós's "Our Friend Manso" (1882), the narrator describes two paintings by Théodore Géricault to point to the shipwreck of ideals; while in "La incógnita" (1889), there are many allusions and descriptions of Italian art, including references to Botticelli, Mantegna, Masaccio, Raphael, Titian, etc.