Image: Cau Ferrat Museum, Sitges
The Cau Ferrat Museum in Sitges marked Vinyet Day with a social media post highlighting Santiago Rusiñol’s ‘L'hort del Vinyet’ (1892). The museum shared the image as a celebratory nod to the local observance, pairing the greeting with basic identifying information for the painting and its place in the museum’s collection.
According to the post, ‘L'hort del Vinyet’ is an oil painting on canvas measuring 79.5 by 84.5 centimetres. The work is by Santiago Rusiñol, one of the central figures associated with the Cau Ferrat and with the cultural life of Sitges. The museum identified the painting directly in its message, underscoring its connection to the location and the day being celebrated.
The post appeared on the museum’s official social media channel and was written in Catalan, beginning with a greeting for Vinyet Day. It did not announce a new exhibition, loan, or special programme, but instead used the occasion to draw attention to a specific work in the collection. The message linked the artwork to the local celebration through its title, which references Vinyet.
The Cau Ferrat Museum is part of the Sitges museum network and maintains a public profile that regularly shares collection items and cultural references. In this case, the museum chose to spotlight a work by Rusiñol rather than issue a broader institutional statement, keeping the focus on the painting itself and its title’s local resonance.
‘L'hort del Vinyet’ dates to 1892 and is presented by the museum as a painting in oil on canvas. Beyond those core details, the post offered no further interpretive note or historical account, leaving the artwork’s significance to be read through its title, its maker and its inclusion in the Cau Ferrat Museum collection.
The museum’s brief Vinyet Day message closed with the artwork credit and a museum link, making the post both a seasonal greeting and a straightforward collection reference. No additional event date, exhibition schedule or related programming was given in the source material.
