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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

19th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century

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

20th century