Foundling!
1901. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
The woman seated at the back of the carriage is an open allusion to the famous parricide immortalised by Sorolla in his painting Another Marguerite!! (Saint Louis, Missouri, Kemper Art Museum). With a repressed expression that evidences a certain guilt, the young woman looks at the wet nurse in the foreground, one of those women who were subsidised by the State to nurse the children in foundling homes. At the 1901 National Exhibition, the critics appreciated the realist vocation of the work and its ties to the painting of Sorolla, although they avoided references to its narrative.
G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2020, p.168 nº 21
