Detail of Senora de Sorolla in Black in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Artist: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, Valencia 1863–1923 Cercedilla)

Title: Señora de Sorolla (Clotilde García del Castillo, 1865–1929) in Black

Date: 1906

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 73 1/2 x 46 3/4 in. (186.7 x 118.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909

Accession Number: 09.71.3


Gallery Label:

Clotilde de Sorolla, the wife of the painter, was the daughter of his friend and patron Don Antonio García.

The Museum acquired the present painting in 1909, when Sorolla's immense reputation in Spain extended to New York. Between 1911 and 1920, Sorolla completed a series of fourteen mural panels for the Hispanic Society of America, New York.

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