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Castle of San Servando, Toledo

1906
Not on view

Sorolla depicts the steep, barren hillside that rises from the banks of the river Tagus near the city of Toledo in Spain. In the upper left-hand corner of the composition is the castle erected by Alfonso VI (1072–1109) to protect the convent of San Servando. El Greco, the sixteenth-century painter whom Sorolla greatly admired, includes the same site at the left in his greatest surviving landscape, View of Toledo, which is also in The Met’s collection.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Castle of San Servando, Toledo
  • Artist: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, Valencia 1863–1923 Cercedilla)
  • Date: 1906
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 26 1/4 x 36 1/2 in. (66.7 x 92.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Archer M. Huntington, 1922
  • Object Number: 22.119.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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