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Polychrome wooden sculpture from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid

Louvre · 1er arrondissement

Sculpting Colour: Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid

Now showing7 October 2026 – 25 January 2027·€22

17th-century Spanish polychrome wooden religious sculptures, including a complete processional float by Gregorio Fernández with five life-size figures displayed at eye level.

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In the first room, five life-size painted figures from a Holy Week float stand at your eye level. Gregorio Fernández made this Road to Calvary paso in Valladolid in the early 17th century, and according to HolaNews his processional figures still go out through the city's streets every Holy Week.

The 23 sculptures, all lent by the Museo Nacional de Escultura and never shown in France before, share the Hall Napoléon with the Zurbarán retrospective. His Holy Face opens both shows. After the paso come rooms on relics, dressed statues, the suffering of Christ and the Virgin, private devotion and the Immaculate Conception, with work by Alonso Cano, who painted his own sculptures, and Luisa Roldán, one of the few women of the period to work for the royal court.

The museum gives 45 minutes, with texts in French, English and Spanish. Tickets are €22 for EEA residents and €32 for others, free for under-18s. The audio app at zurbaran.louvre.fr is free, so bring headphones.

Look for

  • The Road to Calvary paso

    Five life-size carved and painted figures from Gregorio Fernández's Holy Week float, set at eye level in the first room.

  • Cristo de la Luz

    Fernández's life-size Christ on the cross, carved and painted with the naturalism the museum puts at the centre of the show.

  • Zurbarán's Holy Face

    The faint imprint of Christ's face on the cloth Veronica handed him, a painting that opens both this show and the Zurbarán.

  • Luisa Roldán's Virgin and Child

    The Virgin and Child with the young John the Baptist, newly restored, by one of the few women sculptors to reach the royal court.

Good for

  • An Hour Or Less
  • Nerding Out
  • Out-Of-Town Guests

About 45 min

Skip if

You want a light visit: it is Passion scenes, a life-size crucifix and relic cults.

With kids

A trail of labels written for children aged 8 and up picks out selected works. Under-18s go free.

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