Artist: Joaquín Sorolla
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 1896
Cosiendo la vela (English: Sewing the Sail) is a large-format painting by Joaquín Sorolla from 1896. It is classified as Realism and belongs to the period of the artist’s career following his return to his native Spain after his time in Italy. The painting depicts the light-filled patio of a house in Valencia, where several people are busy repairing the sail for a fishing boat. Sorolla first exhibited it in 1897 at the Salon de Paris.
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I’m a sucker for light and this is gorgeous