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This emblematic picture is undoubtedly the best-known work on a social theme produced by Sorolla in his youth. It is also an especially good example of how fully the artist became involved in a genre [+]
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a significant number of Spanish writers and artists viewed themselves as heirs to the rich heritage of the Golden Age realist tradition, particularly the [+]
Following his arrival in Paris in 1894, Anglada-Camarasa became extremely interested in the city’s nightlife. The interior of this café-concert, one of the many to be found in the capital, is s [+]
In 1861 the Galician painter Avendaño was jointly awarded the State travel grant for landscape painting, together with Martín Rico. In the last third of the century he thus lived and wor [+]
This is a cartoon for a tapestry to be hung over a window, with the figure of a Majo playing the guitar and a background of landscape with three other people. The resulting tapestry was intended for t [+]
A front view of a girl with a tambourine in her left hand. She holds a doll with her right arm. In keeping with his interest in children´s portraits, Pinazo captures a very familiar atmosphere here, m [+]
Obsessed by his own image, Pinazo made many self-portraits. Here, the intense light streaming in from the left outlines his face with a marked chiaroscuro, heightened by the shadow cast by the hat. Th [+]
A masterpiece of Spanish naturalism inspired by Émile Zola’s novel of the same name, The Human Beast shows a young woman being initiated into prostitution. Dressed in mourning because she has r [+]
Desnudo de mujer es uno de los desnudos más atrevidos y eróticos que realizó el artista. La mujer aparece tendida, con las piernas hacia el espectador y los brazos detrás de la cabeza. La imagen front [+]
In 1895, Elena Brockmann, a painter from Madrid who had studied first at the Academy of San Fernando and later under Joaquín Sorolla in Rome, became the first Spanish woman to submit a history [+]
Although the ‘Moyano Law’ of 1857 established equal rights to education, schooling remained differentiated by sexes throughout the nineteenth century, and girls continued to have separate classes wher [+]
A tapestry cartoon with two chained dogs, two shotguns, a powder horn, and other hunting implements on a small hill, with a landscape in the background. The resulting tapestry was intended to hang ove [+]
The academic culture of nineteenth-century Spain introduced the concept of decency to the representation of the female nude. During the Restoration, there was a proliferation of images of women oblige [+]
Taking its cue from serialised fiction, the work narrates the return to her father’s home of a girl and her daughter, the fruit of an extra-marital relationship. Kneeling, she implores clemency from h [+]
In a Symbolist vein, this work proclaims the perfect end for a Christian girl whose virginity is rewarded in her last dream with a lily of purity laid by an angel on her breast. In a language indebted [+]
Jiménez Aranda parece haber pintado del natural la escena que muestra en su tablita, en la que una modelo desnuda -físicamente muy próxima a la que debió posar también para su Esclava en venta (P6450) [+]
De la Riva signed this work in Paris, where she had settled. There she was to earn considerable recognition for her still lifes, which she presented at the Salons, the Universal Expositions of 1889 an [+]
The daughter and pupil of Plácido Francés, a painter from Alicante, Fernanda took part in several public exhibitions from 1881 onwards, often successfully. The critics praised her great [+]
