Museo Del Prado - Prints

Prints

The print collection numbers around 4,800 works of which more than 600 came from the library of José María Cervello, recently acquired by the Museum.

As in the case of the drawings, the most important prints in the Prado's collection are by Goya. The Museum has prints from his first series, The Paintings of Velázquez, and from later ones such as The Caprichos, The Disasters of War, The Tauromaquia and The Disparates.

Other prints worthy of mention are those by Mariano Fortuny, many of them related to his period in Morocco, the two series of the Essays in Etching by Carlos de Haes and various works by Joaquín Pi i Margall, namely The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Days and The Theogony. or The Divine Comedy.

Various were represented in the collections of "The Paintings from the Casón del Bueno Retiro", "The Lithographic Collection of the Paintings of the King of Spain", "Selected Paintings from the Real Academia de San Fernando" and "The Etcher".

Among prints by non-Spanish artists, the Museum has four by Dürer: Hercules at the Crossroads, The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom, The Four Angels Holding Back the Winds, and Saint Michael Defeating the Dragon, the last two from "The Apocalypse" series.

The Prado also has prints by Anthony van Dyck, Annibale Carracci, Rembrandt and Giambattista Tiepolo. By the latter the Museum has the set of ten prints from the Vari Capricci published in 1785.