El baño de la reina, Valsaín
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| El baño de la reina, Valsaín |
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| Joaquín Sorolla , 1907 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 106 × 82.5 cm |
| Museo Sorolla , Madrid |
El baño de la reina, Valsaín is apicture paintedin oil on canvas by the Spanish impressionist Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923) from 1907. It is 106 cm high and 82.5 cm wide.
It shows a row of pine trees, almost only the bare trunks can be seen, which are reflected in a small stream. The title translates into German as "The Queen's Bath (in the sense of bathroom)". The reproduction of the light effects under the southern sun is typical of Luminismo valenciano , a special form of Neo- Impressionism that emerged from Impressionism in Spain and whose main exponent was Joaquín Sorolla.
The painting was painted during a summer stay of the painter and his family in La Granja, near the Palacio Real , then a summer residence of the Spanish kings in the province of Segovia . The village of Valsaín is also located there . He had spent the summer there commissioning the then 21-year-old King Alfonso XIII. to paint in hussar uniform.
Sorolla's teacher Gonzalo Salvá Simbor (1845-1923) at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia was a supporter of the Barbizon School . He tried to bring outdoor painting closer to his students . From 1900, open-air painting was of great importance for Sorolla.
El baño de la reina, Valsaín belongs to the collection of the Museo Sorolla in Madrid .
Exhibitions
The painting was shown in an exhibition in London's Grafton Galleries in 1908 . Grafton's first major Impressionist exhibition in Great Britain was held in 1905. The picture was there under the title “ The Forest. La Granja ”. In 1909 it was shown in a Sorolla exhibition of the Hispanic Society of America, founded in 1904 in New York . In 1911, also organized by the Hispanice Society of America, it was featured in the A Collection of Oil Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis , Missouri .
More recently it has been part of a Sorolla traveling exhibition and was in Andorra la Vella from 1998 to 1999 , and from 2000 to 2002 in Ourense , Pontevedra , Lugo , Saragossa , Logroño , Segovia , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Huelva , Badajoz , Girona , Valencia , Castellón de la Plana , Alicante and Albacete , 2003 in Talavera de la Reina , Cuenca , Ciudad Real and Toledo and 2004 to 2005 in Ávila , Murcia and Aranjuez .
Web links
- Datasheet of the painting on ceres.mcu.es (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of Sorolla's summer stay in 1907 at ceres.mcu.es (Spanish). In the description, the king's name is mistakenly used as Alfonso XII. specified.
- ↑ Joana Mylek: landscape and garden images in Joaquín Sorolla. Spain's Masters of Light , editors Roger Diederen , María López Fernández, Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-2563-4 . Page 161.
- ↑ Exhibition directory of the Saint Louis Art Museum ( Memento from November 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 3 ° 41 ′ 33.1 ″ W.