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The painting entered the Museum`s holdings as a work of the school of Jan Both, but it is listed as an original by the painter in the 1843 catalogue. In 1973 Valdivieso identifies it as one of the lan [+]
Reni’s contemporaries recognised his remarkable ability to depict the worn appearance of old age, contrasting with the youthful beauty of his female images. Saint Peter and Saint Paul (P00220) were in [+]
Although the painting entered the Museum as a copy of a work by Jan Both, it is recorded as an anonymous work by the Flemish school from the 1843 catalogue onwards. It is listed as such by Díaz [+]
Alessandro Turchi´s The flight into Egypt, early 1630s, was donated to the Museo del Prado by Ferdinand VII, founder of the museum, before 1833. The painting had not been in the Spanish Royal Collecti [+]
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Aesop and Menippus are first listed in the inventory of the Torre de la Parada between 1701 and 1703. Among other works, this hunting lodge had a vast cycle of mythological paintings made by Rubens an [+]
En el Inventario general de los cuadros de la Trinidad existentes en el depósito y escogidos por la Comisión de la Academia aparecen dos cuadros con la representación de san Juan Bautista. Dado que el [+]
The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other previous works, but endowed with all [+]
Jan van Kessel era nieto de Jan Brueghel el Viejo y sobrino de Jan Brueghel el Joven y de David Teniers II, de quienes fue discípulo. En esta obra aúna varios de los géneros pictóricos en que destacó. [+]
Nicolas Poussin has a curious relation to the Buen Retiro Palace. Úbea considers him the determinant artist among all those who took part in its decorative project. That could explain why he wa [+]
Desfile, por la plaza de Bruselas, de los gremios de la ciudad, con sus insignias y gran número de cofrades; desde galerías y balcones presencian la comitiva numerosos espectadores. El fondo es la Gra [+]
The model’s identity is known through the 1701 inventory of the Buen Retiro Palace, which lists a painting two-and-a-third rods high and one-and-a-half rods wide, which is another portrait of a buffoo [+]
El personaje retratado sostiene en la diestra su sombrero y posa la izquierda en la cazoleta de la espada; fondo arquitectónico y de paisaje; a sus pies se representa una bandeja de frutas. Atribuido [+]
This painting entered the Museum`s holdings as Saint Francis in the Brambles by Jan Both. The scene is correctly classified in the catalogue of 1873. A decade later Valdivieso (1973) identifies it as [+]
An angel appears to Saint Joseph in his sleep, pointing to the dove of the Holy Ghost as the heavens open in a luminous burst of glory. Under the dove, a group of angels carry a mirror and flowers all [+]
Along with Philip IV and Velázquez, the third name intimately associated with the Buen Retiro Palace is Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645). When Philip IV took the thro [+]
These two paintings were first shown in Amsterdam in 1858. On that occasion the sitters were identified as Lambert Witsen and his wife Sara Nuyts owing to the woman`s purported similarity to the portr [+]
