Today, 1 March, the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson and the Museo Nacional del Prado presented the third volume of the Collection of Letters from the Madrazo Archive in the Museo del Prado. Thanks to the patronage of the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson and the collaboration agreement signed with the Prado, the two institutions have now completed the critical edition of one of the most important and detailed collections of letters from nineteenth-century Spain.

The third volume of the Collection of Letters from the Madrazo Archive in the Museo del Prado contains 1,122 letters that shed an important light on the history, politics, arts and social mores of Spain and Europe, as well as the role of women in very different spheres. The artists Mariano Fortuny and Madrazo, Overbeck and Gérôme, the politician Emilio Castelar, and the writers Fernán Caballero and Alejandro Dumas are just some of the authors included in the collection.

The occasion is also marked by the exhibition The Collection of Letters from the Madrazo Archive in the Museo Nacional del Prado: A Joint Publishing Endeavour. On display at the Madrid headquarters of the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson (Calle Alcalá Galiano, 6) from 6 to 27 March, it features some of the most important letters, due to the drawings they contain, from the three publications.