In its latest Boletín the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado reported on the grant for doctoral studies established last year as a result of the CEEH’s collaboration with the drawings and prints committee. The grant was set up to fund research into the formation of the Prado’s collection of drawings, ranging from the works that once belonged to the Crown and those that came from the Museo de la Trinidad to the bequests and purchases that have continued to enrich it up until the present.

The awardee, Ana Hernández Pugh, appears in a video recently posted on the Prado’s Instagram account, in which Nuria de Miguel (secretary general of the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado) and José Manuel Matilla (head of the Museum’s department of Drawings, Prints and Photographs) also take part, presenting a gift received by the Museum with the help of the members of this committee. The work in question is a print by Manuel Salvador Carmona of the former Altarpiece of the Virgin of Sorrows, which went missing from the friary of San Francisco in Burgos during the Peninsular War. Ana Hernández Pugh explains the importance of this print and how it has made it possible to reconstruct the history of a drawing already in the Museum.

This researcher’s work at the Prado gave rise to Dibujos de Manuel Salvador Carmona (1734–1820). Catálogo razonado, which was published by the CEEH, the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the Museo Nacional del Prado in 2023, with a prologue by José Manuel Matilla.

Other titles published by CEEH involving one or both of these authors are:

El maestro de papel
Copied by the Sun
The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya
     in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Grabadores extranjeros