A masterpiece by Luisa Roldán for Valladolid

10/10/2024 -  Acquisition - Valladolid, Museo Nacional de Escultura - With a steadfastness that commands admiration, our Spanish neighbour is endeavouring to preserve as representative a collection as possible of works by Luisa Roldán, the Roldana, whose name has become familiar to readers of La Tribune de l’Art. The great Baroque sculptor, so highly prized in her day, has in recent years enjoyed a salutary revival of interest on both sides of the Atlantic, to which French museums remain incomprehensibly aloof. One of his masterpieces was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the nose of the Musée du Louvre, even though it had spent a century in France! We denounced this heritage scandal at the time (see article and then the news item of 6/11/17), and today we can only rejoice…