Joaquín SorollaEspaña, 1863–1923¿Se puede contemplar?
Madrid, España
Se conoce el propietario; no se sabe si hoy está expuesta.
En la zona superior a la izquierda, figura masculina de espaldas, que parece estar trabajando en algo que está frente a él. Bajo esta figura, otra de perfil a la derecha que se cubre la cabeza con sombrero y está trabajando frente a un bulto. A la derecha en la zona superior, rasguños, quizás otra figura trabajando. En el reverso se ha copiado por contacto el reverso del dibujo con Nº Inv. 13401
Museo Sorolla
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 de noviembre de 1892
Son born: Joaquín Sorolla García
12 de junio de 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.
1900
Grand Prix at the Paris Universal Exposition
“Sad Inheritance”, a huge canvas of crippled children bathing in the sea at Valencia under a monk’s supervision, brought Sorolla his greatest official recognition, the Grand Prix and a medal of honour, and his exhibit as a whole earned him nomination as a Knight of the Legion of Honour. After this picture he never returned to so overtly social a theme.
1901
A medal of honour in Madrid for “Sad Inheritance”
The painting won the medal of honour at the National Exhibition in Madrid. Two of its luminous preparatory oil sketches Sorolla gave as gifts to the American artists John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase.