Explore the Description of this artwork, Clotilde García del Castillo (painting).
The painting is part of the collection of the Sorolla Museum, in Madrid, Spain.  It is a portrait by Joaquín Sorolla of his wife, Clotilde García del Castillo. In the painting, she sits on a wooden chair, clad in a black dress (a sort of a high neck gown) with brown gloves, posing for the painting with a tilted posture on the right, her right hand firmly rested on a pillow kept on the chair and her fingers touching her cheek and chin while her left hand rests on the armrest. Her hair is bound at the top of her head and crowned with a yellow flower.
Sorolla Museum Madrid Joaquín Sorolla Spain