Woman Painting by the Sea

Ca. 1882. Oil on panel.
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A woman paints energetically à plein air in a fashionable resort on the Normandy coast. Although it cannot be ruled out that this is a portrait of a real woman artist, the ambiguous characterisation would distance it from the conventions used to depict male painters by both Palmaroli and the artists of his closest circle.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2020, p.261 nº 62

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Inventory number: P004550
Author: Vicente Palmaroli y González
Title: Woman Painting by the Sea
Date: Ca. 1882
Technique: Oil
Support: Panel
Dimension: Height: 45 cm; Width: 31.5 cm
Provenance: Bequest of Vicente Palmaroli Reboulet, 1941; Museo de Arte Moderno; Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 1968-1971
Entry date: 1971

Bibliography +

Fortuny y Madrazo, Mariano, Exposición retrospectiva de obras: D. Vicente Palmaroli: 1834-1896, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Madrid, 1936, pp. nº23.

Orihuela, Mercedes y Cenalmor, Elena, El "Prado disperso". Obras depositadas en Málaga. I. Museo de Málaga, Boletín del Museo del Prado, 21, Madrid, 2003, pp. 132.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 453.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2020, pp. 261 nº 62.