Sad Inheritance

Sad Inheritance! (Spanish: ¡Triste herencia!) is an 1899 oil painting by Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla. The painting was held by Episcopal Church of the Ascension in New York for many years, until it was bought in 1981 by the Savings Bank of Valencia (now part of Bankia).

The large work measures 210 cm × 285 cm (83 in × 112 in). It depicts a crowd of sick and disabled naked children, including some using crutches due to polio, on the Malvarrosa beach in Valencia. They have been brought to the beach by a black-clothed monk from the Valencian asylum hospital of San Juan de Dios, to bathe in the seawater as a therapeutic measure. In the background, some children are already in the sea.

Sorolla reported coming across the scene himself, writing:

Estaba ocupado una mañana en hacer un boceto de pescadores valencianos, cuando distinguí a lo lejos, cerca del mar, un grupo de niños desnudos, …

摘自英文维基百科「Sad Inheritance!」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。