Exhibition: Goya and More

José de Ribera
Boy with a windmill and an old man pulling a cart with a dead body, 1640-1650
Watercolour, pen, dark ink and pencil, paper
235 × 170 mm

This exhibition presents a selection of works on paper – drawings, prints and photographs – acquired by the Museo del Prado between 1997 and 2010. It offers visitors the first opportunity to admire the most important works acquired over this period and which are normally stored in the Department of Prints and Drawings due to their fragile nature. In addition, the exhibition sets out the Museum’s principal strategies with regard to the acquisition of works on paper.

The Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings, located in the new Jerónimos Building designed by Rafael Moneo, houses the collection of drawings, prints and old photographs that has been built up since the time of the Museum’s founding. Together with the original works from the royal collection, a number of additional groups were added such as those from the Museo de la Trinidad and the Museo de Arte Moderno. Together they constituted the core of this area of the Prado’s collection, which has been expanded over the years, particularly with the addition of the Pedro Fernández Durán Bequest in 1931. It has continued to grow over the years through significant acquisitions, particularly in the period from 1997 to 2010.

For the first time in the Museum’s history the catalogue has only been published in on-line format can download here.

A Video from the exhibition:


Contact:
Museo del Prado
Calle Ruiz de Alarcón 23
Madrid 28014
Jerónimos building. D szoba

Opening:
5 May to 28 August 2011

Image and text source: www.museodelprado.es