''Clotilde García del Castillo'' is an 1890 oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish painter

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. It is part of the collection of the Sorolla Museum, in

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It is a portrait by Sorolla of his wife, Clotilde García del Castillo. In the painting, she is depicted seating on a wooden chair, clad in an elegant 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. The light and neutral background of the canvas removes any notion of perspective, following a technique used by

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1890 paintings Portraits by Spanish artists Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla Paintings in the Sorolla Museum Portraits of women {{1890s-painting-stub

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