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2/7/2007

Patinir

Prado Museum, Madrid

The Invention of Landscape

curated by Alejandro Vergara

Featuring a total of 48 paintings, 22 by Patinir and the remainder by his most important predecessors and followers, the exhibition will offer visitors the first opportunity to see most of this unique painter’s work together. Patinir is little known to the wider public, possibly due to his small oeuvre and the fact that few collections contain a sizeable group of his paintings. This has made the study of his art difficult up to now, even for specialists.

Arising from the research carried out in the preparation of this exhibition, its curator is also responsible for the publication of a catalogue raisónne of Patinir’s work, which aims to become the principal source of reference on this subject for specialists in Flemish art.

June 2007. This July the Museo del Prado will be presenting the first exhibition devoted to the painter Joachim Patinir. This 16th-century Flemish artist and contemporary of Bosch can be considered the father of landscape. Aside from his important role within the history of art as the inventor of that genre, Patinir is an exceptionally appealing artist due to his poetic and enigmatic vision of nature. In addition, his small surviving oeuvre and the little that is known about his life make him an interesting and mysterious figure. The exhibition brings together 22 of the 29 paintings which the curator, Dr Alejandro Vergara, Chief Curator of Flemish Painting at the Museo del Prado, has attributed to the artist and a further 27 paintings and works on paper by predecessors and followers of his style.

The exhibition will bring together the largest group of the artist’s works to date. Most have very rarely or never been previously loaned due to the particular conservation problems associated with oils on panel. Among the paintings by Patinir to be included in the exhibition, six come from Spanish collections (four from the Prado, one from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and one from the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial). Patinir is particularly well represented in Spain and almost a quarter of his entire oeuvre is now to be found in the region of Madrid.

This is the most ambitious exhibition that the Museum is devoting to the work of a 16th-century Flemish artist and the Prado, which houses one of the best collections of 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish painting worldwide, is paying tribute to this great figure, the first Flemish artist to make landscape the principal subject of a painting. In addition, with the four works mentioned above, the Prado has the largest collection of Patinir’s works in any collection. With the present exhibition in mind, the Museum has restored these four oil paintings over the last three years.

Among the most important works loaned for the exhibition are The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine and The Baptism of Christ from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Triptych with the penitent Saint Jerome from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York which has never travelled before; the small but beautiful Landscape with the Flight into Egypt from the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; and the spectacular Landscape with Saint Christopher from El Escorial.

For more information:

Department of Press and Communications, SEACEX
Ruth Fernández: tel 917022660 r.fernandez@seacex.es

Jorge Rodríguez del Álamo: tel 666 593007 jralamo@seacex.es

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