Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries

Among the Spanish paintings in the collection of the National Gallery of Art are important works by El Greco, Goya, Velazquez, Murillo, Valdes Leal, and Juan van der Hamen y Leon. The catalogue contains the most comprehensive entries to date on all works in the National Gallery of Art: a biographical outline of the artists; a description and new observations of the physical condition of each painting; critical discussions of such matters as attribution, chronology; identification of subject matter or sitter; and a summary of previous scholarship.