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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 and his assistants, as well as some of Velázquez’s portraits of buffoons and member of the royal family dressed as hunters. The inventory also lists Rubens’s Democritus and Heraclitus, which is p
Se identifica al personaje como Alonso Martínez de Espinar (h.1594-1682), ayuda de cámara del príncipe Baltasar Carlos y del propio monarca, entre cuyos cometidos estaba el de acompañar a Felipe IV durante las cacerías y entregarle el arcabuz. en este mismo ministerio le ayudaba también Juan Céspedes.Hombre muy experto en caza escribió y publicó una obra titulada Arte de la ballestería y montería
In addition to the Roemer goblet, other glasses common in this kind of monochrome still life presented here include the Berkemeyer, in this case tipped over and broken, and the delicate Façon-de-Venise wineglass, in fashion at the time and likewise made in the Netherlands. Also featured is an exquisitely decorated silver goblet. Alongside them is a knife with a sheath and an open clock that
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 cuadro procedente de San Pedro Mártir es, con seguridad, el cuadro de autor anónimo madrileño (P5303), el de los trinitarios calzados debe de ser éste. No fue registrado en el Inventario de las pintu
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 the prestige of the commissioning party. In turn, these works became models for numerous replicas (Danaë receiving the Golden Rain, 1560-65, Museo del Prado, P425).Danaë depicts the moment
The painting entered the Museum holdings as an original work by Jan Both. In 1959 Blunt identifies it as the landscape listed in the 1701 inventory of the Palace of the Buen Retiro and maintains the attribution to Both, as does Roethlisberger (1961). However, Waddingham (1960) ascribes it to Herman van Swanevelt, an attribution backed by Luna (1984) and officially adopted by the Museum in 1985. Th
Two pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem meet a traveler, whom the invite to dinner. When their unknown guest blesses the bread on the table, they recognize that he is Christ resurrected. This story is taken from the Gospel of Luke (24, 13-55). The painter sets the scene in a space that is open to an architectural landscape, with a fortress and a Baroque building out of which a figure is leaning. Th
A noble Roman widow and mother of five children, Saint Paula decided to retreat to the desert and abandon her worldly ways in favour of a life of prayer and penitence. In 285 AD she abandoned Rome with her son, Eustace, and moved to Antioch, where she joined Saint Jerome to share a hermit’s life. Claude Lorrain’s painting depicts her departure, offering an imaginary recreation of the port of Ostia
The island of Saint Christopher (modern-day Saint Kitts) in the Lesser Antilles was invaded by the English and French and recaptured by Spanish forces in 1629. The Spanish expedition was led by Fadrique de Toledo y Osorio, I Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza and Captain General of the Ocean Fleet. He was accompanied by Fleet General Martín de Vallecilla and Admiral Antonio de Oquendo. After
A broad landscape is the setting for Moses’s rescue from the Nile River by the Egyptian Pharaoh’s daughter and her retinue. In the foreground, a shepherd sleeps, indifferent to the events taking place behind him. The lush landscape, flowing river with a bridge, and the city in the background to the right are artistic license, and the original vegetation is evoked by only one element: the palm tree
Like many other works by Andrea di Lione, Jacob’s journey, c.1635-65, was previously attributed to Genoese painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto). It is one of the most successful landscapes with figures by Lione, who first studied with battle painter Aniello Falcone (1607-1656) and later developed a more bucolic manner under the influence of Castiglione, whom he lived alongside in
This work belongs to the so-called peasant interiors, one of the new genres of painting that emerged and developed in Flanders and Holland in the early seventeenth century. In Houbraken and in early inventories they are described as een boertje (a little peasant) or as toeback rookerchen (tobacco smokers). The consolidation and appreciation of this genre was fostered by the satirical and moralisin
Saint Onuphrius, a hermit saint of the fourth century AD, retired to the Egyptian desert in search of solitude. As with other works for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid, this landscape was created by two artists: Claude himself, who painted the landscape, and a second, unknown artist who painted the hermit.
This is the largest of the paintings that Lemaire, a French artist working in Rome, produced for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. The architectural ruins and sculptural fragments are real but their arrangement in the scene is imaginary. The identity of the hermit remains unclear.
Representación del sitio de Breda, que tuvo lugar entre el 12 de septiembre de 1624 y el 2 de junio de 1625. En primer plano aparece la visita de la infanta gobernadora al campo de batalla tras la victoria, junto a otros personajes entre los que se encuentra Ambrosio de Spinola.El primer dato documental de esta obra lo da el inventario del Alcázar de 1636: ".... el sitio de Breda, con moldura dora
Christ kneels with his arms raised, looking to the heavens where a angel holds attributes of his passion: a chalice and a cross. The sleeping apostles appear in the middle ground, behind Christ to the left. This work passed from the Royal Collection to the Museo del Prado with an attribution to Juan de Juanes. In 1920, Tormo´s opinion prevailed and it was correctly cataloged as a work by his
This painting entered the museum as a work by Claude Lorrain, but in 1843, it appeared in the catalog as an original by Jan Both, an attribution that has been maintained in posterior catalogs and is accepted without argument by specialists.Drawn from Acts (VIII: 26-38), the subject is the conversion and baptism of Queen Candace of Ethiopia by the Apostle Philip the Eunuch, who did so while returni
This painting celebrates the freeing of the Swiss town of Constance from its besiegement by Swedish troops under General Horn, who sought to cut off communication between imperial troops and Spanish soldiers at La Valtellina and the Duchy of Milan. Along with The Storming of Rheinfelden (P637) and The Capture of Breisach (P859), this is one of the three paintings at the Hall of Realms that commemo
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