The White Slave Trade
Joaquín Sorolla · 1894
The White Slave Trade is a painting by the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla, painted in 1894. It is held by the Museo Sorolla, Madrid.
Young women sleeping huddled under shawls on the benches of a dim third-class railway carriage, watched over by an older chaperone in black — a sombre social-realist scene of girls being trafficked.
- Collection
- Museo Sorolla, Madrid
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Source resolution
- 2000 × 1710 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
- Mother 1895–1901
- Portrait of Clotilde in a Grey Dress 1900
- My Children 1904
- Backlit: María at Biarritz 1906
- Snapshot, Biarritz 1906
- The Skipping Rope 1907