LETTERS FROM THE MADRAZO ARCHIVE AT THE MUSEO DEL PRADO. VOL. III

Cover of the publication ‘Epistolario del Archivo Madrazo en el Museo del Prado III’. Published by: Museo del Prado and FMCMP. Photographic reproduction: María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, 2024. Author of the photograph: Kike Llamas.

Interior of ‘Epistolario del Archivo Madrazo en el Museo del Prado III’. Published by: Museo del Prado and FMCMP. Photographic reproduction: María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, 2024. Author of the photograph: Kike LLamas.

Epistolario del Archivo Madrazo en el Museo del Prado . III
Cartas de las mujeres y otros miembros de la familia, y de artistas, amigos y conocidos

Co-publisehd the María Cristina Masaveu Foundation with the Museo del Prado

Jointly published by Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson and the Museo del Prado, this is the third volume of correspondence from the Prado’s Madrazo Archives, following the release of the first in 2017 and the second in 2022. This third instalment is also the longest, containing 1,122 letters written by family members that were not included in the previous volumes, artists who were close to them, and friends and acquaintances. Of particular interest is the collection of letters penned by the women in the family, like Luisa Garreta y Huerta and Cecilia de Madrazo, which provide amazing insight into the private lives of this dynasty of artists.

The last section of the book contains many art news reports that draw a complete map of the personal, professional and artistic relations of the Madrazos, the most notable family in nineteenth-century Spanish art history.

Epistolario del Archivo Madrazo en el Museo del Prado (II). Cartas de Federico, Pedro, Fernando, Luis y Juan de Madrazo, Eugenio de Ochoa e Isidoro Gil was jointly published by the Museo del Prado and the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson in 2022. It was edited by Pedro J. Martínez Plaza, museum technician in the Nineteenth-Century Painting Department at the Museo del Prado, and it contains an introduction by Javier Barón, chief curator of nineteenth-century painting at the Prado. The design is by María José Subiela.