Voces del Prado

The Museum’s staff under Sotomayor

José Torreblanca Prieto, Grandson of José Prieto, Lead Concierge, 1936-1948

The Museum’s staff comprised government employees of this lower rank, but no more than a watchman a Conservator and a Head Porter, then three porters who I suppose got some sort of gratuity.
The person in charge of the Museum, however, was the director. I remember that when people referred to him it was as if they were talking about God Almighty as he must have been totally unapproachable. I don’t know where his office was. I suppose at that period the director of the Prado was Sotomayor, an excellent painter but obviously he didn’t get involved. He must have passed through the Museum and people greeted him respectfully but I don’t think he got involved with specific things about what was going on there as he was an artist.