Spanish Drawings from the Hamburger Kunsthalle: Cano, Murillo and Goya
Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid 10/30/2014 - 2/8/2015
The Hamburger Kunsthalle, in terms of quality and quantity, houses one of the most important collections of Spanish Old Master drawings outside Spain, numbering more than 200 works. Assembled in Seville in the early 19th century, it was subsequently sold on the London art market and acquired by the Hamburg museum in 1891.
The core of the collection comprises drawings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and by some of his most important contemporaries and followers, many of them associated with the Academy founded in Seville by Murillo, Juan de Valdés Leal and Francisco de Herrera the Younger. In addition, the exhibition includes important works by other leading Golden Age masters such as Alonso Cano and Antonio del Castillo.
Another outstanding section is the group of drawings by Francisco de Goya based on original paintings by Velázquez that are now in the Museo del Prado.
- Curator:
- José Manuel Matilla, Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings and curator.