Goya's painting goes up for auction for two million euros

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'Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar to the Apostle Santiago and his disciples' will go up for auction on June 23 with a starting price of

An "inexportable" work, from a private collection, which enjoys a "good state of conservation" and whose restoration work was carried out at the Prado Museum, just before the exhibition in which it was at the Royal Palace of Madrid, as detailed by the Alcalá Subastas house in a statement

As of June 10, the public will be able to see it in the

of the Madrid firm;

It is a large-format canvas (107 x 80 cm) that was part of the old Rosillo collection.

"It is a perfectly documented work", which the Marquis of Lozoya made known in 1951 in his article 'Two unpublished Goyas on a religious theme', explains the auction house.

The piece could be seen in 2012 in the exhibition at the Royal Palace "Goya and the Infante Don Luis the exile and the kingdom. Art and science at the time of the Spanish Enlightenment".

Subsequently, between 2013 and 2018, it has been part of the permanent exhibition of the Goya Museum in Zaragoza, on loan.

From a technical and chromatic point of view, based on

, this work can be related to the cartoons with themes of hunting and fishing for the tapestries destined to decorate the dining room of the princes of Asturias in the Royal Site of San Lorenzo del Escorial in 1775, adds the signature.

The

was chosen by Goya on different occasions.

A pencil drawing of one of the pages of the Italian Notebook (f.134r) and a small canvas, 56 x 42 cm, that he painted c.

1771-1775, preserved in the Museum of Zaragoza.

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