Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923May one see it?
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
A la izquierda, mujer vista de perfil, de medio cuerpo. Lleva el pelo recogido en moño y sobre los hombros una pañoleta. A su izquierda, una figura masculina de la que vemos una mano, adelantada como gesticulando, y parte de la cabeza. Frente a ellos, al fondo, una mujer completamente cubierta y un hombre de perfil a la izquierda, que se cubre la cabeza con gorro. A la derecha, en primer plano y apartado del otro grupo de figuras, un hombre de perfil.
Sorolla Museum
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.