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Ricardo de Madrazo (1852-1917): dibujos y acuarelas
The first Prado show on Ricardo de Madrazo: sketchbooks, drawings and watercolours, from copies after old masters to orientalism, city views and intimate scenes.
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One watercolour here shows a porrón, the glass wine jug Mariano Fortuny drank from on his deathbed, painted by his brother-in-law Ricardo de Madrazo. Ricardo was the youngest son in a dynasty: his father and grandfather both ran the Prado, and he spent his career behind them, his brother Raimundo and Fortuny.
This is the Prado's first show on him, in Room 60 of the Villanueva building, and almost none of it has been exhibited before. You get 29 sketchbooks dated 1867 to 1917, with pages from Rome, Venice, Granada, Tangier and Fez, plus watercolours, loose drawings, a self-portrait and family papers. Copying ran in the family: Fortuny copied a cherub here, then Madrazo copied Fortuny's cherub. If you're the youngest at Sunday lunch and still get introduced as somebody's little brother, this room is on your side.
It is all work on paper, with no big salon canvases, and no reviews have appeared yet. Entry is included in general admission (€15, reduced €7.50).
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Ricardo de Madrazo's sketchbooks, drawings and watercolours, in the Prado's first show on him: copies after old masters, orientalism, city views and intimate scenes. He was Federico de Madrazo's son and Mariano Fortuny's brother-in-law.
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Fortuny's porrón
Look for the watercolour of the glass wine jug Fortuny drank from on his deathbed, painted by Madrazo, his brother-in-law and travel companion.
The 29 sketchbooks
Fifty years of notebooks, 1867 to 1917, with pencil and pen notes made in Madrid, Rome, Naples, Venice, Granada, Tangier, Fez, Biarritz and Lequeitio.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want big oil paintings: everything here is on paper, with no salon canvases.
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- Museo del PradoEmilio J. Rodríguez Posada (Emijrp), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- CaixaForum MadridDraceane / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Thyssen-BornemiszaLuis García (Zaqarbal), CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo NavalFernando, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasLuis García (Zaqarbal), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0