Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Las papillas
May one see it?
Unknown
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
Escena del interior de una casa en el que vemos, a la izquierda, una mujer sentada en una silla. Está de perfil a la derecha, ligeramente girada de tres cuartos. Va peinada con moño y sobre sus rodillas tiene a una figura infantil apenas esbozada e identificable por el faldón que cuelga sobre la falda de la mujer. Frente a ella, una mesa. En la pared tras la mujer se ha representado un rectángulo doble y un ángulo, doble también, que indican los marcos de unos cuadros. Aunque el dibujo de la figura infantil y la acción que está realizando la mujer están poco desarrolladas, la inscripción al pie nos da la clave de lo que se esta representando: una mujer dando la papilla a un niño.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- 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.
