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02-06-2026
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez

Madrid, 1817 - Madrid, 1870

Eugenio Lucas Velázquez See author's file

Sermon of the masks

1855. Oil on copperplate.
Not on display

On the right, on a platform, grotesque figures contemplate and preside over the dense crowd of masked and unmasked people. In the background, on the left, the artist outlined something resembling a float. This work shares similarities with Sermon in the Field (P04419), which also has very impastoed brushstrokes.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas del siglo XIX, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 1985, p.139

Technical data

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Inventory number
P004417
Author
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez
Title
Sermon of the masks
Date
1855
Technique
Oil
Support
Copperplate
Dimension
Height: 26 cm; Width: 40 cm
Provenance
Donation from Juan Vitorica Casuso for the Museo Español de Arte Moderno, 1968; Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 1968–1971
Entry date
1971

Bibliography +

Arnáiz, José Manuel, Eugenio Lucas: su vida y su obra, Montal, Madrid, 1981, pp. 414-415.

Simon Bolivar: bicentenario de su nacimiento 1783-1983, Consejo Nacional de Cultura, Caracas, 1983.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas del siglo XIX, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1985, pp. 139.

Mena Marqués, M.; Albarrán, V., La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, folleto, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 57 n.248-n.249.

Maurer, Gudrun, Goya: lo bello y lo recóndito, La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 427.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 345.

Other inventories +

Actas traslado de obras MEAC - Prado, 1971-1973. Núm. 340.

Inscriptions +

Lucas 1855
Signed and dated. Front, lower right corner

94
Inscribed in gray. Front, upper right corner

MAM
Inscribed. Frame, back, upper bar

Exhibitions +

Esperpento
Madrid
08.10.2024 - 10.03.2025

Máscaras. Genealogías de la identidad moderna
Málaga
27.07.2020 - 10.01.2021

Captive Beauty. Fra Angelico to Fortuny
Madrid
21.05.2013 - 10.11.2013

Goya y el mundo moderno
Zaragoza
18.12.2008 - 22.03.2009

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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