La futbolista rubia, c. 1926

A Mexican painter in Paris paints a woman footballer, and paints her as an athlete.

Work: oil on canvas
Maker: Ángel Zárraga
Date: c. 1926
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Painted as an athlete, and nothing less.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

La futbolista rubia, the fair-haired footballer, an oil on canvas by the Mexican painter Ángel Zárraga from about 1926. Zárraga, born in Durango in 1886, did much of his work in France, where he painted murals at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris and decorated the Mexican embassy. His work was entered in the art competitions of the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games. In the 1920s women’s football in France had a national championship of its own, run since 1919, and Zárraga painted a player from that world with the seriousness he gave to everything else.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

La futbolista rubia, c. 1926, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

La futbolista rubia, c. 1926 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of oil on canvas — Ángel Zárraga, c. 1926 — from the copy held by Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
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