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The painting is called Conciencia Tranquila by Julio Romero de Torres.

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He made this painting to win a scholarship to study in Rome, made by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid.

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Of the ones on the contest, he was the only one who showed his sympathy and emotion for the side of the worker.

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This first work by Julio Romero de Torres falls within the social realism.

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It is a harrowing canvas influenced by those authors of that movement, such as Jean-Francois Millet or Honoré Damié.

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In the scene, a judge conducts a search in the room of an anarchist worker, who is seen with his arms tied.

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The woman cries, anticipating the misfortune, and three civil guards await the judge's orders, while the anarchist endures the search with dignity.

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The child homing to his father's shirt adds a humanity to the painting.

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It may be the most important social group in the work of Julio Romero de Torres, along with the white slave trade.

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Despite the undeniable quality of the painting, whose composition is masterful,

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its atmosphere is similar to that of Las Meninas by Velázquez, and the attention cost is barely contained.

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The scholarship of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando was not awarded to him,

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but he did win third prize at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1899 with this work.