Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
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Puerto de Valencia
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1897
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 23 3/8 x 35 in. (59.4 x 88.9 cm). Framed: 28 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (71.8 x 100.3 x 3.2 cm)
- Credits
- Cincinnati Art Museum. Bequest of Eleanor R. Meacham.
- Location
- Cincinnati Art Museum
The Young Amphibians
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1903
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 37 7/8 × 51 3/8 in (96.2 × 130.5 cm)
- Credits
- Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1904
- Location
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Blind Man of Toledo
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 24 1/2 x 36 1/2 in (62.2 x 92.7 cm)
- Credits
- Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase, The Meadows Foundation Fund with private donations, MM.03.01. Photography by Kevin Todora.
- Location
- Meadows Museum
Seven-Peaks, Guadarrama
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 62.23 x 97.79 cm (24 1/2 x 38 1/2 in); framed: 81.28 x 117.79 x 8.26 cm (32 x 46 3/8 x 3 1/4 in)
- Credits
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Archer M. Huntington, Class of 1904
- Location
- Harvard Art Museums
María at La Granja
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1907
- Medium
- Oil
- Dimensions
- 67 1/8 x 33 1/2 in (1704.98 x 850.9 mm)
- Location
- San Diego Museum of Art
Fountain in the Forest, La Granja
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1907
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.3 x 106.5 cm (32 x 41 15/16 in.). Framed: 91.8 x 116.8 x 5.1 cm (36 1/8 x 46 x 2 in.)
- Credits
- Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke
- Location
- RISD Museum
After the Bath
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1908
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 176 x 111.5 cm (69 5/16 x 43 7/8 in.)
- Credits
- Acquired from the artist, 1909. Hispanic Society of America. All rights reserved
- Location
- Hispanic Society Museum and Library
The Little Granddaughter
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1908
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 32 x 41 1/2 in. (81.3 x 105.4 cm). Framed: 41 1/8 x 50 9/16 x 3 in. (104.5 x 128.4 x 7.6 cm)
- Credits
- Cincinnati Art Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft.
- Location
- Cincinnati Art Museum
Portrait of Frances Tracy Morgan
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1909
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 53 x 43 in.
- Credits
- The Morgan Library & Museum. Photography by Graham S. Haber.
- Location
- Morgan Library & Museum
Pepilla and her Daughter
by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1910
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 181.6 × 110.5 cm (71 1/2 × 43 1/2 in); framed (Display): 200.7 × 129.5 × 10.2 × 8.3 cm (79 × 51 × 4 × 3 1/4 in)
- Notes
Handsome and proud, Pepilla sits with one arm around her daughter's shoulders and her other hand on her hip. Both mother and daughter gaze directly out at the viewer. Just as the mother's gesture tenderly protects yet presents her daughter, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida expressed tenderness in his portraits of Spanish people, particularly women and children.
With his typical spontaneous, broad brushwork, Sorolla reveled in the effects of the warm Mediterranean light and air on the colors and patterns in the women's costumes. He preferred to paint even portraits outdoors, trying to achieve a spontaneous effect. "[N]o matter how much labor you may have expended on the canvas, the result should look as if it had all been done with ease and at a sitting," he said in 1909.
- Location
- J. Paul Getty Museum