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Antonia de Bañuelos: A Cosmopolitan Artist
Live stream with Carlos G. Navarro, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Painting at the Museo del Prado, discussing the 1885 self-portrait of the painter Antonia Bañuelos Thorndike.
Born in Rome in 1855, Antonia Bañuelos was regarded as one of the leading Spanish artists of her time. Carlos G. Navarro and José Manuel Matilla, Head of the Museo del Prado’s Collection of Drawings, Prints and Photographs, also present "The Countess of Bañuelos", a drawing by Gordon Greenough, Antonia Bañuelos’s second cousin. The work portrays the artist and was exhibited at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878.
Broadcast from Room C of the Museo del Prado.
The exhibition "Prado. 21st Century" is sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado with the collaboration of the Regional Government of Madrid. On view until 27 September 2026.