Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840-1924) at the Prado

July 1 2025

Image of Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840-1924) at the Prado

Picture: Prado

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Prado in Madrid opened a new exhibition yesterday entitled The Painter Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840 - 1924).

According to their website:

Until 11 January 2026, Room 60 of the Villanueva Building at the Museo Nacional del Prado will host selected works by Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840–1924), one of the most original Spanish artists of the 1800s.

The ten paintings on display—five of them recently restored—illustrate the thematic variety, technical skill and aesthetic vision of the Valencian painter. A nearby showcase contains the acceptance speech “on sincerity in art” given when he was inducted into the Academia de San Fernando (1899), a drawing donated to the collections, and a photograph of his portrait by the sculptor Miguel Blay.

This show is part of a programme that aims to promote the museum's nineteenth-century collections, the most numerous group of paintings at the Prado, which since 2009 has featured different artists, media and contexts in small single-theme exhibitions.

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