Voces del Prado

The Embarkation of Saint Paula by Claude Lorrain and other works

Manuel Montero Eugenia, Head of the Art Handling Staff, 1986-Up to date

It’s the painting that most caught my eye the day I started at the Museum and every time I see it I look at it with new eyes. I don’t know: something about the light and the way Claude Lorrain painted the composition that’s always attracted me since the first time I saw it and it’s a work that for me is completely different to the others. I don’t know how to explain why, but that’s how it is for me.
There are others that really impress you for being more famous, such as Las Meninas, then others that for particular reasons you know they require special care as they weigh a lot or are very fragile or you have a particular memory of them. In other cases there are works that make you think “how many times have I had to move that work?” I often think: “how many times in the past thirty years have we moved the Museum?”.