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Currently not on display

Joaquín Sorolla

Valencia, 1863 - Cercedilla, 1923

The Drinking Jug

Date 1904
Materials and Techniques Oil on canvas
Size(cm) 151 x 98
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left: J. Sorolla y Bastida / 1904
Standard ref. BPS1839
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2022-0002

Provenance

Acquired by D. Calixto Rodríguez (1848-1917) in 1905 for 10,000 pesetas; thence passed on to his widow María Lorente in Madrid (died in 1963); thence inherited by Victoriano Lorente, who married Helena Sorolla in 1922, and their descendants; purchased by NMWA through Colnaghi, 15 November 2022.

Exhibition History

1906
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Galerie Georges Petit, 0  1906 - 0  0, p. 22, cat. 442, as "La Cruche”
1910
Exposición española de Artese Industrias decorativas, Mexico City, 0  1910 - 0  0
1963
Joaquín Sorolla. Primer centenario de su nacimiento (1863-1963), Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Casón del Buen Retiro, Madrid, 0  1963 - 0  0, cat. no. 45
2020
Joaquín Sorolla. Lumières espagnoles, Hotel de Caumont Centre d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, 0  2020 - 0  0, not included in catalogue
2023
Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 July 2023 - 3 September 2023, cat. no. 2-45

Bibliography

1906
Exposition Sorolla y Bastida (exh. cat.). Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, Imprimerie G. Petit, 1906, p. 22, cat. no. 442
1910
Exposición de Arte Español e Industrias Decorativas (exh. cat.). Mexico City, 1910, [n. p.]
1970
De Pantorba, Bernardino. La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla. Madrid, segunda edición ampliada, 1970, ca. no. 1539
2001
Pons-Sorolla, Blanca. Joaquín Sorolla: vida y obra. Madrid, Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispano, 2001, pp. 222-223, cat. no. 115
2005
Pons-Sorolla, Blanca. Joaquín Sorolla. San Diego Museum of Art, 2005, pp. 146, 148, cat. no. 60
2009
Joaquín Sorolla 1863-1923 (exh. cat.). Barón, Javier, ed. , Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2009, p. 189
2012
Pons-Sorolla, Blanca, Sorolla: the Masterworks. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 2012 , p. 79, cat. no. 30
2023
Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections (exh. cat.). Kawase, Yusuke; Inaba, Yuta; Nakada, Asuka et al., eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2023, pp. 79, 226-227, cat. no. 2-45, col. repr.
2024
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 57 (Apr. 2022-Mar. 2023), 2024, pp. 11-13, col. repr.

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