Soldado a caballo

1891–1896 · Drawing

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Where is “Soldado a caballo” now? Collection: Sorolla Museum, Madrid. Unknown.

Sorolla Museum

Madrid, Spain

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since: Sep 27, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the work

Museum text in Spanish

Vista de un caballo desde sus cuartos traseros ligeramente girado de tres cuartos. Va montado por un soldado con chacó a la cabeza y uniforme con banda o canana (no se distingue bien por estar de espaldas) cruzada sobre el pecho. En el reverso se ha copiado por contacto otro dibujo, no conservado.

Sorolla Museum

Details

What it shows

Soldiers Horse

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Impressionism 19th century

Sources

Sorolla Museum
Image: Sorolla Museum — In Copyright

In the life of Joaquín Sorolla

The whole life

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.

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