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Joaquín Sorolla / The Queen's Bath, Valsaín

The Queen's Bath, Valsaín

1907 · Oil on canvas

Sunlight filters through the trees onto a quiet forest pool near the royal estate of Valsaín.

LocationMadrid, Spain
Genrelandscape painting
Dimensions106 × 82.5 cm

Why it matters

Almost bare pine trunks are reflected in a small stream, painted in the southern light typical of Valencian luminism. Sorolla made it while spending the summer near the royal palace of La Granja, where he was painting the young King Alfonso XIII.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1907.
  • Its title means 'the Queen's bath'.
  • It is in the Sorolla Museum in Madrid.

Based on the German Wikipedia article El baño de la reina, Valsaín (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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