Woman with a Green Parrot

Joaquin Agrasot y Juan · 1850/1880

Medium

Watercolor with gouache over graphite on cream wove paper

Original size

34 × 22.8 cm (13 7/16 × 9 in.)

Currently held

Art Institute of Chicago

Movement

Romanticism

"Woman with a Green Parrot" is a quietly intimate work — a study in stillness and domestic elegance that draws the eye through its delicate layering of colour and light. Joaquín Agrasot y Juan was a Valencian painter who trained under Francisco Pradilla and spent formative years in Rome on a scholarship from the Diputación Provincial de Valencia. He became known for finely observed genre scenes and portraits that sit somewhere between the grand ambition of Spanish academic painting and the warmer, more personal register of everyday life. This piece, executed in watercolour with gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, reflects his technical confidence with transparent media — building luminosity through restrained, deliberate layering rather than bold gesture. The inclusion of the parrot places the work within a broader 19th-century European tradition in which exotic birds served as quiet symbols of leisure, refinement, and the fashionable bourgeois interior. Now held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the original is a work of considerable subtlety. Our hand-painted oil reproduction translates that gentleness of tone and careful compositional balance into a medium built to last — giving you the warmth and presence of the original on your wall, rendered stroke by stroke by a skilled painter.