Title
White Slave Trade, by Sorolla (1894)
Creator
Sorolla, Joaquín
Date
1894
Description
Original title: "Trata de blancas" ("White Slave Trade").
A group of young women on their way to a brothel, under the vigilance of a procuress. Social denunciation.
A group of young women on their way to a brothel, under the vigilance of a procuress. Social denunciation.
Source
Relation
- Bibliography
María Dolores Caparrós Masegosa and Esperanza Guillén Marcos, "Prensa católica y pintura española en el último cuarto del siglo XIX: Aproximaciones a una crítica integrista (segunda parte)," Cuadernos de Arte de la Universidad de Granada 39 (2008): 113-29,
Reyes Carrasco Garrido, "Arte, moral y prostitución: Un asunto escabroso en la Nacional de 1897," Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte 9-10 (1997-1998): 379-86.
Format
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 166,5 × 195 cm
Dimensions: 166,5 × 195 cm
Item Relations
This Item | is related | Item: The Human Beast (La bestia humana), by Fillol (1897) |
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