Joaquín Sorolla, The bathing hour, 1904
Sorolla was only two years old when both of his parents died in a cholera epidemic. He and his younger sister were adopted by their mother’s sister and her husband.
--https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/sorolla/what-you-need-to-know-about-sorolla.
Set on the beach at Valencia, the tender gesture of the young adolescent girl in the foreground and the innocence of the young boys frolicking in the surf, contrast with the tough masculinity of the oxen and riders beyond.
-- https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2003/19th-century-european-paintings-including-spanish-paintings-1850-1930-l03103/lot.221.html?locale=en

