Young women asleep with their bundles in a third-class carriage

Five figures fill the plank-walled compartment of a third-class railway carriage. In front a young woman lies asleep across the bench in a pale salmon dress with a lace hem, her head fallen against a second woman in a red-and-black headscarf who has also given in to sleep. Behind them a girl in a red headscarf and a spotted grey cape sits upright; at the right an older woman in a black shawl stays awake while another sleeps against her shoulder. Baskets, a trunk and a bundle knotted in red-printed cloth are heaped by the window.

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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