Spanish school; 19th century.
"Portrait of a young lady with fan.
Oil on canvas.
It has a label on the back of the Universal Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid.
It presents faults on the pictorial layer.
Measurements: 79,5 x 54,5 cm; 103 x 79,5 cm (frame).
Portrait of a lady dressed in traditional costume with a fan in one of her hands.19th and 20th century Spanish painting and literature have traditionally been interested in popular customs and types. Sorolla himself commented, "I want to give, always within the verism of my school, a representation of Spain; not looking for philosophies, but for the picturesque of each region". This trend spread to all the provinces of Spain, Andalusia being the most famous for its depiction of popular life. For this reason, this type of work was very common and appreciated in Spanish art from the 19th century until well into the 20th century. In which the creation of popular patterns portrayed through an idyllic vision where the author is influenced by a romantic aesthetic and heritage, developed during the second half of the 19th century and which resulted in a localist conception of the landscape, in works that reflected the love for one's own land and the beauty and lyricism of the everyday, the close, the familiar.