The Siesta
Joaquín Sorolla · 1911
The Siesta is a painting by the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla, painted in 1911. It is held by the Museo Sorolla, Madrid.
Four women in white lie asleep on the grass in the afternoon heat, their relaxed, foreshortened bodies dappled with shade.
- Collection
- Museo Sorolla, Madrid
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Source resolution
- 4875 × 4820 px
- Rights
- Public domain
Public domain — the work of Joaquín Sorolla (d. 1923) is in the public domain worldwide. Source: Wikimedia Commons .
More paintings by Joaquín Sorolla
- The White Slave Trade 1894
- Mother 1895–1901
- Portrait of Clotilde in a Grey Dress 1900
- My Children 1904
- Backlit: María at Biarritz 1906
- Snapshot, Biarritz 1906