Village women queueing to kiss a reliquary held by a priest

A priest in a black cassock and a pale stole stands at the right holding up a gilt reliquary on a tall stem. A woman in a cream headcloth and a brown bodice bends to kiss it, hands at her chest; behind her the queue presses forward — an older woman in an ochre headscarf and an embroidered shawl, a boy in a pale surplice at the left, more heads and dark shawls behind. The floor is a wide pavement of blue-grey and cream tiles, and a white-draped altar closes the right. Signed at the lower left.

Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923) was the painter of Spanish sunlight. From the 1890s he worked on the beaches of Valencia, painting bathers, fishermen, sails and children in the surf with a broad, rapid touch that caught the glare of the Mediterranean, and his exhibitions in Paris, London and New York made him one of the most celebrated painters of his day. His last great work was the Vision of Spain for the Hispanic Society of America. His paintings are held by the Museo Sorolla in Madrid, the Prado and the Hispanic Society.

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