A woman wrapped head to foot in black against an ochre wall

A young woman stands full length in a black mantle drawn over her head and shoulders, one hand on her hip so the cloth falls in a single unbroken silhouette; her face and hands are almost the only light in that half of the canvas, and a flounced pale skirt shows beneath. A second young woman crouches behind her at the left in a white shawl edged with red over a spotted skirt, looking up. The wall behind is a flat sheet of ochre, with a grey dado to the right and a black doorway at the top 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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