Isabelita and Thor

1893

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Artist, Spanish, 1863 - 1923

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 200.5 × 140 cm (78 15/16 × 55 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.5.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned 1893 by Augusto Comas y Blanco [1863 – 1953], Madrid;[1] purchased 1940s by D. Manuel Fernandez Aldao, Madrid; by inheritance 2014 to private collection, Madrid; (Colnaghi, London); purchased 2025 by NGA.
[1] Comas y Blanco was the father of the painting's subject, Isabelita.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1893

  • Exposición Bienal del Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, 1893, no. 483.

Bibliography

1893

  • Comas y Blanco, Augusto. “La exposición del Circulo de Belles Artes.” Blanco y Negro: revista ilustrada 3, no. 110 (10 June 1893): 383, repro., 384.

  • “Exposición del Círculo de Bellas Artes en 1893, ‘Nuestros Grabados, Bellas Artes.’” La Ilustración española y americana. 37, no. 22 (15 June 1893); cover, engraved, 386.

  • Almanaque de La Ilustración para el año de 1894. 21 (1893): 45, engraved.

1953

  • Pantorba, Bernardino de. La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla. Madrid, 1953: no. 1854, repro.

2001

  • Pons-Sorolla, Blanca. Joaquín Sorolla, vida y obra. Madrid, 2001: 128-129.

2019

  • Pons-Sorolla, Blanca. Sorolla. Catálogo razonado. Colección de pinturas del Museo Sorolla. Madrid, 2019: no. BPS 996.

Inscriptions

lower left: J. Sorolla. 1893

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