The return of 'La marquesa de Santa Cruz' in 1986 to the Prado Museum after a long tour of the world and a plot of forgeries, was a milestone of heritage protection. Read
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A portrait that almost ended up in Hitler’s hands and a judicial battle in London returned to the Prado a jewel of Goya. Forty years later, La marquesa de Santa Cruz, one of the most fascinating works of the Aragonese genius that can be admired today in room 28 of the Prado Museum. The thousand and one journeys of a canvas The story of this portrait begins in 1805, when Goya immortalized Joaquina Téllez-Giron, Marquise de Santa Cruz, in a canvas…
The return of 'La marquesa de Santa Cruz' in 1986 to the Prado Museum after a long tour of the world and a plot of forgeries, was a milestone of heritage protection. Read