Clotilde in the garden

Clotilde is posed in the garden of the house, next to the Fountain of Confidences, and behind her we can see the bed of pink wallflowers that Sorolla also reproduces in other paintings of his garden, and the columns that separate this area from the "second" garden of the house.

Born in 1865, Clotilde is 54 or 55 years old in this portrait. She is a mature woman wearing a simple white suit with a long jacket and a straight skirt that exposes her ankles, in the sober style that had become popular after the war. The large hat gives her a touch of elegance that is never lacking in his portraits. Sorolla repeats a compositional scheme he had already used in Clotilde on the Sofa (1910), based on a diagonal approach that develops a deep, zigzagging space behind the figure. It is one of the last portraits he painted of his wife.