Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Descansando
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
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- The museum's own collection data
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
En el centro inferior, en primer plano, un caballero elegantemente vestido, visto de frente y sentado en un banco de ciudad; tan sólo está dibujado de busto. Apoya el brazo izquierdo sobre el espaldar del banco y reposa la mano tras la nuca. Se cubre la cabeza con un sombrero de ala corta ligeramente curvada que oculta la parte superior del rostro. Un ligero sombreado sugiere la barba e insinúa medio oculta una lazada de pajarita. Viste chaqueta larga. En segundo plano, en el centro, un carruaje visto lateralmente, del que prácticamente sólo se ha esbozado el caballo. En el reverso se ha copiado por contacto el dibujo con Nº Inv. 13151
Sorolla Museum
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- Sorolla Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: Sorolla Museum — In Copyright
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life8 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.
