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A new Luis Paret for the Prado
10/4/26 - Acquisition - Madrid, Museo del Prado - We had already announced it: in addition to pendants by Boucher (see the news item of 30/3/26), the generous bequest of Juan José Luna has allowed the Museo del Prado to enrich its eighteenth-century collections with a new work by Luis Paret y Alcázar, one of the major figures of the rococo in Spain, nicknamed the “Spanish Watteau”, to whom the institution devoted a retrospective in 2022 [1], four years after that held at the Biblioteca Nacional de España [2].
María and Ludovica, the Painter’s Daughters, 1783
Oil on copper – 37.1 x 27.9 cm
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Photo: Museo Nacional del Prado
Like two very young nymphs, María and…
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