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Maria at La Granja

painting by Joaquín Sorolla

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ18711420 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maria at La Granja is an oil painting on canvas created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla. The painting is part of the collection at the San Diego Museum of Art, which acquired it in 1926.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Maria at La Granja” as painting by Joaquín Sorolla. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1926—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1907. The account is most persuasive where Maria, Granja and painting can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as painting by Joaquín Sorolla. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18711420. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1907 and 1926.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Maria at La Granja”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Maria at La Granja primary sources, Maria at La Granja archive and Maria research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Maria at La Granja”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Maria at La Granja” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.