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Francisco de Goya, The Third of May, Oil on canvas, 268 x 347 cm, 1814 © Madrid,
Museo Nacional del Prado
HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM number of sculptures, prints, drawings and works
The Museo del Prado of art through bequests, donations and purchases,
which account for most of the New Acquisitions.
Particularly important was the Barón Emile
In addition, more outstanding paintings - which d’Erlanger’s donation of Goya’s Black Paintings
belonged to the Museo de la Trinidad - entered in 1881. Among the works that have entered the
the Prado, among them The Fountain of Grace by collection through purchase are some outstanding
the School of Jan Van Eyck, Saint Dominic Presides ones acquired in recent years including two works
over an Auto de Fe by Pedro Berruguete, and five by El Greco, Fable and The Flight to Egypt acquired
canvases by El Greco executed for the Colegio de in 1993 and 2001, The Countess of Chinchón by
Doña María de Aragón. Goya bought in 2000, and Velázquez’s Portrait of the
Most of the Museum’s 19th-century paintings came man called ’The Pope’s Barber’ acquired in 2003.
from the former Museo de Arte Moderno, including Important bequests have enriched the Museum’s
works by the Madrazo, Vicente López, Carlos collection. Among them we should mention the
de Haes, Rosales and Sorolla. More than 2,300 magnificent collection of medals bequeathed by
paintings have been incorporated into the Museum Don Pablo Bosch’s, the vast collection of drawings
del Prado since its opening as well as a large and decorative arts that belonged to don Pedro
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