Madre e hijo, Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, 1890
Joaquín Sorolla, portraitJoaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923

Madre e hijo

1890 · Drawing

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

Figura femenina de perfil a la izquierda con un bebé en sus brazos, dándole el pecho o acunándolo. La mujer está peinada con moño. A su derecha, en primer plano, parte de una mesa.

Sorolla Museum

Particulars

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla

The whole life
  1. 1888

    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.

  2. 13 April 1889

    Daughter born: María Sorolla García

  3. 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.

  4. 8 November 1892

    Son born: Joaquín Sorolla García

All works

From the collection of Sorolla Museum

Museum page

On the same theme · Retrato femenino

All works on the theme