La Fuensanta is a portrait painting by Spanish artist
Julio Romero de Torres depicting Maria Teresa López González, one of his models. The painting was made in the autumn of 1929, when Torres completed another two artworks,
La Chiquita Piconera and
Bodegas Cruz Conde. González was one of Torres's favourite models, having first sat for him at the age of fourteen. According to
Sotheby's, the work has been "proclaimed as a quintessential rendition of
Andalucian beauty", and it was depicted for 25 years on the 100
peseta banknote. The work was exhibited at the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville in 1930, and is now in a
private collection.
Painting credit: Julio Romero de Torres