1909Salto de línea Oil on canvasSalto de línea 205 x 200 cmSalto de línea Nº inv. 834
Painted in the summer of 1909 on the beach at Valencia after his resounding success in the United States, Strolling along the Seashore is one of Sorolla’s most celebrated paintings and among the most famous in the museum’s collection.
The sea and sand of the shoreline, executed with broad blue, mauve and turquoise brushstrokes, become an abstract backdrop for the refined figures of the artist’s wife and their daughter María. The suggestion of a breeze in the gentle movement of the dresses intensifies the impression of a fleeting moment, a sensation to which the use of a markedly photographic viewpoint also contributes, truncating Clotilde’s wide-brimmed hat and leaving an empty area of sand at the lower edge.
While the setting is the same, the tone is very different to that of the artist’s other Valencian beach scenes. This one closely conforms to a genre known as the “elegant stroll”, a type of image which depicted wealthy, well dressed figures by the seashore.
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