The paintings that Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer painted between 1866 and 1867 for the old Trinidad Museum are brought together for the first time in the exhibition Valeriano D. Bécquer (1834-1870): the paintings of customs from the Prado Museum. The commission had been granted to him along with a pension by Royal Order of February 6, 1865, but this was extinguished in 1868 after the overthrow of Isabel II, which prevented the painter from completing his task. A decade later, the eight paintings delivered until then were dispersed among various institutions.
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