We know Rusiñol’s desire to represent a closed compositional space. In this painting that was presented at a Paris Salon, he paints a corner of a courtyard where he places a girl playing with a doll next to a wall on which there are pots of long-stemmed hydrangeas that cover the entire wall , with a magnificent balance of importance between the flowers, the pots and the lyricism of the scene, demonstrating a delicacy of composition with an intimate atmosphere. Very modern, vibrant and luminous due to the color of the pots of hydrangeas, of undisputed prominence and the same color as the girl’s dress, with an elegant taste for the linear perspective to make us participative spectators of the scene and the beauty of the reasons

The typical houses in Sitges had a back yard where the laundry room, a cistern and plants were located. The girl playing with a doll is the same and in the same dress as the one represented in the painting The Reprimand.

Year 1891-1892

Oil on canvas

132x91 cm

Santiago Rusiñol, 1861 - 1931