JOAQUÍN SOROLLA | Estudio para Moro a caballo. La sorpresa de Zahara (study for Moorish Rider)

Sr. Mélida (a gift from the artist)

Sr. Valmaña (until 1956)

Víctor Domínguez Borrajo

José María Entrecanales, Bilbao & Madrid

Delfina Entrecanales, London (by 2011; by descent from the above, her father)

Sale: Christie's, London, 21 November 2012, lot 54

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

This work is the sketch for the painting commissioned by the second Marqueses de Torrelaguna in 1901, depicting a scene from José Zorilla's romantic poem La Sorpesa de Zahara (1481) and sold at Christie's London, 4 December 2002.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Blanca Pons Sorolla, who will be including it in the forthcoming Sorolla catalogue raisonné (BPS 4890).