Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Caballo
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Sorolla Museum
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
Anverso: Dos figuras sentadas en la playa En el centro de la composición, dos sillas de playa forradas en tela, con parasol, típicas del siglo XIX. En ellas hay dos figuras sentadas, de las que sólo distinguimos bien la de la izquierda, un hombre con traje y bombín a la cabeza. Al fondo, una línea representa el horizonte. La inscripción del lateral no alude al tema de la escena. Reverso: Caballo Caballo de perfil, ligeramente de tres cuartos, visto desde los cuartos traseros. No tiene silla de montar, sino que al lado, vemos las riendas largas que indican que iría gobernado por el conductor de un coche de caballos.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life13 April 1889
Daughter born: María Sorolla García
1890
Moves to Madrid: large canvases for the salons
The family moved to Madrid. For the next decade Sorolla concentrated on large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical and social subjects for salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin and Chicago.
8 November 1892
Son born: Joaquín Sorolla García
12 June 1895
Daughter born: Elena Sorolla García
1897
“A Research”: the Prize of Honour in Madrid
Two paintings linking art and science, “Portrait of Dr. Simarro at the Microscope” and “A Research”, won Sorolla the Prize of Honour at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. He showed his friend Simarro in the laboratory, catching the contrast between the reddish-yellow light of a gas burner and the weak mauvish light from the window.
