The working girl is a work that has become emblematic within the artistic movement of nineteenth-century social realism .
The painting features a girl working on a loom and has become a highly descriptive image of the harshness of female child labor in the textile industry. At the end of the 19th century, Catalonia entered the steam era of the industrial revolution earlier than in several areas of the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to the economic boost it had experienced in the 18th century.
Title: The girl who works
Author: Joan Planella i Rodríguez
Date: 1889
Technique: Oil painting on canvas. Frame in stuccoed and gilded wood.
Displayed in: Museum of the History of Catalonia
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