Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923El cortejo
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Sorolla Museum
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
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- The museum
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
En primer plano, en el centro de la hoja, una figura femenina sentada en una silla de respaldo recto. La vemos de espaldas y ligeramente de perfil. Va vestida con falda larga y con el pelo recogido, y agacha la cabeza, hacia unos rasguños que parecen unas flores que sostiene con su mano derecha. Tras ella, hacia la izquierda, vemos parcialmente a una figura masculina que está sentada a horcajadas en una silla. Tiene los brazos apoyados en el respaldo e inclina la cabeza hacia la mujer. Al fondo, unos rasguños. La escena parece indicar que la figura masculina está hablando íntimamente con la mujer, como cortejándola, habiéndole regalado unas flores.
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- Sorolla Museum
- Image: Sorolla Museum — In Copyright
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.
1900
Grand Prix at the Paris Universal Exposition
“Sad Inheritance”, a huge canvas of crippled children bathing in the sea at Valencia under a monk’s supervision, brought Sorolla his greatest official recognition, the Grand Prix and a medal of honour, and his exhibit as a whole earned him nomination as a Knight of the Legion of Honour. After this picture he never returned to so overtly social a theme.
