11.03 – 16.06.2013
For
the first time, the Museo del Prado will be offering the visiting
public the opportunity to see the entire oeuvre of the Spanish
painter Juan Fernández, known as “El Labrador”, who worked in
the first half of the 17th century and was a key name in the early
development of the still life in Spain. El Labrador’s fame as a
painter of such works, which were greatly in demand from collectors,
extended beyond Spain and paintings by his hand were to be found in
the English royal collection.
The five works by the
artist in the Prado’s collection – a floral still life acquired
from a private collector in 1946, which may have been in the royal
collections in the seventeenth century, plus four paintings that
entered the Museum with the Naseiro collection in 2006 – will be
exhibited alongside the rest of the artist’s known oeuvre. These
additional works are primarily loaned from private international
collections and will assist in promoting greater knowledge of the
remarkable work of this exquisite, enigmatic painter.