Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Oropesa
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
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
Vista de Oropesa, rodeada de pastos verdes, con una muralla en la parte de abajo y dos masas rectangulares en el otro extremo que probablemente estén señalando las torres del castillo. Al fondo la sierra de Gredos, donde destaca, en el centro, el pico Almanzor, cubierto de nieve.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1911
Contract with Huntington for a series on Spain
In Paris Sorolla signed a contract with the American magnate and patron Archer Huntington for a series of paintings on life in Spain. The major commission of his career, it dominated his last years.
early 1911
Second US visit: St. Louis and Chicago
Sorolla visited the United States a second time and showed 152 new paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum and, a few weeks later, 161 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
1911–1919
Through the provinces of Spain to paint from life
Huntington had envisioned a history of Spain; Sorolla preferred a “Vision of Spain” and finally images of the regions of the peninsula, “The Provinces of Spain”. He painted all but one of the huge canvases en plein air, travelling to Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Elche, Seville, Andalusia, Extremadura, Galicia, Guipúzcoa, Castile, León and Ayamonte and posing models in local costume.
