After its presentation at Meadows Museum in Dallas, the Museum of Prado will gather, for the first time, almost half of the drawings from the collection of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, an institution with one of the world most important collections of Spanish picture, formed by nearly two hundred works dating from the sixteenth century and early nineteenth century.
Gathered in Seville in the early nineteenth century, it was sold in the London market and acquired by the German museum in 1891. With a majority set of Seville drawings, the names of Cano, Murillo, Valdes Leal, Castillo and Schut stand, but Goya is also present in this collection with a rich set of works, among them some first works for his series of prints of Velazquez portraits.
This exhibition and the accompanying catalog, also published in English, will present some of the main issues related to the world of drawing, as its value as an autonomous expression, their use in the creative process of the artwork and as a training tool, his collecting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the problem of attributions.
Source:hoyesarte.com
Image: Pareja con sombrilla en el paseo (1795-97). Francisco de Goya. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett. © Hamburger Kunsthalle/bpk. Photo by Christoph Irrgang.
