Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923En la taberna
May one see it?
Unknown
Sorolla Museum
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
Vista del interior de lo que parece un bar o taberna, con varios hombres sentados. En primer plano, a la derecha, las piernas de una figura masculina de pie, inclinada hacia delante. Tras él, hacia el centro de la hoja, figura masculina sentada en una silla, de espaldas a nosotros. Lleva a la cabeza un sombrero flexible, y está sentado a una mesa en cuyo lado opuesto se sienta otro hombre que queda de frente a nosotros pero al que no distinguimos bien la cara por tenerla agachada. Éste caballero también se cubre con sombrero. Al fondo, hacia la izquierda, otros dos hombres sentados, y a la derecha, una última figura de pie, muy esbozada.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1888
Returns to Valencia to marry Clotilde
Sorolla returned to Valencia to marry Clotilde García del Castillo; by 1895 they had three children — María, Joaquín and Elena.
13 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.
