Joaquín Sorolla Family

By Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen

Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. He was a master of light.

Joaquín Sorolla loved his wife and his family. He painted them all the time. He lived in the time when photography was being invented and commercialized. Sorolla created a virtual family album with his wonderful paintings. He invited us to see and share his happiness. Sorolla was not shy about his family as many of his contemporaries were.

He sold many paintings that showed his family, especially his daughter María was a favorite with the public, and Sorolla jokingly called María the breadwinner of the family. He wanted us to share his view of the ideal family as he shared his view of a great and united Spain. Sorolla painted dogs and a cat as pets, as part of the family, superbly catching their soul and character.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Nov 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9788411746038

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About the authors

Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She also creates designs and advice on fashion and styling.

Eric Thomsen has published in science, economics and law, created exhibitions and arranged concerts.

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Cover picture:

Front: "Madre" - Mother, 1895

Inside: "My Wife and Daughters in the Garden",

1910

Content

Introduction

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Formative period 1863-1886

Autoretrato en perfil1878

Retrato de Don Antonio Garcia del Castillo1887

Clotilde en la ventana1888

"The Painter’s Studio" 1888

"El Crit de Pelleter" 1884

"Perfil de Clotilde" 1888

Consolidation period 1889-1899

Retrato de Clotilde Garcia del Castillo1890

Portrait of Clotilde1891

Clotilde contemplating Venus de Milo 1894

"Maria Sorolla or The Baby Girl" 1893

"Joaquín con una bolar" 1894

"Madre - Mother" 1895

Joaquín Sorolla Garcia vestido de blanco1896

"El Príncipe Felipe Próspero " 1659

Baltasar Carlos, Principe de Asturiasca 1637

Mis chicos1897

Elena con muñeca1897

"Mi mujer y mis hijos" 1897-1898

"Elenita at her desk" 1898

El Beso1899

Culmination period 1900-1910

Clotilde con traje gris1900

Maria1900

Self Portrait1900

Clotilde en el estudio1900

Mi familia- My Family 1901

Portrait of Joaquin Sorolla by Christian Franzen 1901

Señora de Sorolla in White1902

Clotilde in Black1902

Clotilde desnudoor Desnudo de mujer 1902

El perro de familia Sorolla1903

Suspense1894

Elenita at the Beach, Asturias1903

"Maria vestida de blanco" 1903-1904

Autoretratro1904

"Clotilde en la playa" 1904

"Mis Hijos - My children " 1904

La siesta en el jardin1904

Self Portrait1905

Clotilde y Elena en las rochas, Jávea1905

Maria and her Grandmother Clotilde1905

"My Children’s Grandparents" 1905

Joaquin y su perro1905

Señora de Sorolla1906

Lighthouse Walk at Biarritz1906

"Vista de La Pedriza desde El Pardo"

Maria Sick1907

"Maria Convalescing in El Pardo" 1907

"Maria painting at El Pardo" 1907

"Maria en La Granja" 1907

Maria en los jardines de La Granja1907

"Saltando a la Comba, La Granja" 1907

Elena entra rosas1907

Watching the Fish1907

Maria dressed as a Valencian peasant girl 1906

"Clotilde en los jardines de la Granja" 1907

"Portrait of Joaquín Sorolla by Gertrude Kasebier" 1908

Elena and Maria, the Painter’s Daughters, on Horseback in Valencian Period Costumes1908

"Feria de Abril 15, Sevilla " 2018

Antonio Garcia1908

The Photographer Antonio Garcia in his Laboratory 1908

Family reunion at Garcia Peris 1907

Paseo a la orilla del mar-Walk on the Beach 1909

Elena en la playa1909

Antonio García en la playa1909

Self Portrait1909

Portrait of a Jack Russell1909

Elena vestida con túnica amarilla1909

"Maria in Red Blouse" 1910

"Maria on the Beach at Zarauz" 1910

"Bajo el toldo. Zarauz - Under the awning. Zarauz" 1910

Bajo el toldo, playa de Zarauzay1905

Clotilde in the Garden1910

Clotilde with Hat"1910

Clotilde y gato y perro1910

"Joaquin Sorolla y su perro" 1910

Clotilde in Evening Dress1910

Clotilde Sitting on the Sofa1910

Maria con mantilla1910

María con sombrero1910

"My Wife and Daughters in the Garden" 1910

Final Period 1911-1920

"Casa Sorolla" (1911)

Sorolla Museum, Varios Cuadros

"Museo Sorolla"

La Siesta1911

Self Portrait1912

Self Portrait 1915

"Riding en Croupe, Valencia" 1916

"Joaquín Sorolla y Garcia sentado" 1917

Retrato de la cantate Raquel Meller1918

"Quinquet Pons-Sorolla" 1917

Taking Tea1918

Clotilde en el jardin 1919-1920

Honors

Self Portrait - A mi Clotilde1909

References

Photo credits

Note

A mi Clotilde, Self portrait 1909

Introduction

Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. He was a master of light.

Joaquín Sorolla loved his wife and his family. He painted them all the time. He lived in the time when photography was being invented and commercialized. Sorolla created a virtual family album with his wonderful paintings. He invited us to see and share his happiness. Sorolla was not shy about his family as many of his contemporaries were.

He sold many paintings that showed his family, especially his daughter María was a favorite with the public, and Sorolla jokingly called María the breadwinner of the family. He wanted us to share his view of the ideal family as he shared his view of a great and united Spain. Sorolla painted dogs and a cat as pets, as part of the family, superbly catching their soul and character.

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (born 27 February 1863 in Valencia – died 10 August 1923 in Cercedilla, Madrid) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native land and sunlit water.

Sorolla was the eldest child born to a tradesman, also named Joaquin Sorolla, and his wife, Concepción Bastida. His sister, Concha, was born a year later. In August 1865, both children were orphaned when their parents died, possibly from cholera. The children were then cared for by their maternal aunt and uncle, a locksmith

He received his initial art education from the age of 9 in his native town, and then under a succession of teachers including Cayetano Capuz and Salustiano Asenjo. At the age of eighteen he traveled to Madrid, vigorously studying master paintings in the Museo del Prado. After completing his military service, Sorolla, at age twenty-two, obtained a grant which enabled a four-year term to study painting in Rome, Italy, where he was welcomed by and found stability in the example of Francisco Pradilla, the director of the Spanish Academy in Rome. A long sojourn to Paris in 1885 provided his first exposure to modern painting; of special influence were exhibitions of Jules Bastien-Lepage and Adolf von Menzel. Back in Rome he studied with José Benlliure, Emilio Sala and Jose Vellegas Cordero.

In 1888, Sorolla returned to Valencia to marry Clotilde García del Castillo, whom he had first met in 1879, while working in her father's studio. By 1895, they would have three children together: Maria, born in 1890, Joaquín, born in 1892, and Elena, born in 1895. In 1890, they moved to Madrid, and for the next decade Sorolla's efforts as an artist were focused mainly on the production of large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical, and social subjects, for display in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin and Chicago.

His first striking success was achieved with Another Marguerite (1892), which was awarded a gold medal at the National Exhibition in

Portrait of the painter Joaquín de Sorolla y Bastida by José Jiménez Aranda in 1901

Madrid, then first prize at the Chicago International Exhibition, where it was acquired and subsequently donated to the Washington University Museum in St Louis, Missouri. He soon rose to general fame and became the acknowledged head of the modern Spanish school of painting. His picture The Return from Fishing (1894) was much admired at the Paris Salon and was acquired by the state for the Musée du Luxembourg. It indicated the direction of his mature output.

Sorolla painted two masterpieces in 1897 linking art and science: Portrait of Dr. Simarro at the microscope and A Research. These paintings were presented at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Madrid in that year and Sorolla won the Prize of Honor. Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window. These paintings may be among the most outstanding world paintings of this genre.

An even greater turning point in Sorolla's career was marked by the painting and exhibition of Sad Inheritance (1899), an extremely large canvas, highly finished for public consideration. The subject was a depiction of crippled children bathing at the