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25 janvier 2008

"El Greco au Prado": exposition et catalogue raisonné

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The Adoration of the Shepherds, El Greco, Oil on canvas, 319 x 180 cm, 1612-1614. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

MADRID, SPAIN.-To mark the publication of the catalogue raisonné of the forty-seven works by El Greco in the Museum del Prado, the Museum is presenting the exhibition El Greco in the Prado. For the first time, it brings together all the works by the artist owned by the Museum, including the painting of Saint Bernard, a masterpiece by El Greco that has been on deposit in Toledo since 1910. The exhibition has been organised to focus on the relationship between El Greco and the Prado and the manner in which the works in the group entered the Museum’s collection. It offers visitors a unique opportunity to focus on this outstanding ensemble, which is the finest and largest group of works by El Greco in any museum or collection world-wide.

The first temporary exhibition held in the Prado, in 1902, was in fact devoted to El Greco. One hundred years later, the Museum is once more bringing together its collection of works by the artist in order to present them in a new light and in parallel with the publication of the first catalogue raisonné of these works by Leticia Ruiz, Head of the Department of Spanish Renaissance Painting in the Prado. The 1902 exhibition included around twenty works, comprising all those attributed to El Greco in the Museum’s collection at that time. Happily, and for a variety of reasons, the Museum now has a considerably larger holding and the present exhibition features thirty-seven autograph works by El Greco together with ten by his followers or circle. The exhibition celebrates the publication of the catalogue raisonné and is structured in a way comparable to the book, whose starting-point is the way these works by the artist arrived at the Museum. The first works by El Greco to enter the Prado were from the Spanish royal collection, followed by religious compositions from the now defunct Museo de la Trinidad, while others have been added more recently through donations, bequests and purchases.

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The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail), El Greco, Oil on canvas, 319 x 180 cm, 1612-1614. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

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