The Prado Museum has raised to 70 the number of works that are in its funds from seizures, eight more than in the first report published last September, according to the conclusions of the study commissioned to Professor Arturo Colorado, an expert in heritage and Civil War.

To this figure could be added 7 medals entered in 1936 from the Palacio de Exposiciones del Retiro and 89 drawings deposited in 1971 by the Ministry of Education and Science, of unknown origin and currently in the process of research by the area of Documentation and Archive of the museum.

The study has been able to identify the origin of ten of the paintings with name and surname or specific origin: Pedro Rico -mayor of Madrid on two occasions (1931-1934 and 1936)-, the church of Yebes in Guadalajara or the Marquis of Villalonga are some of the original owners.

To these works are added two others with exact address information, but without reference to the owner.

Colorado emphasizes differentiating the works from the shipments of the Board of Seizure and Protection of the Artistic Treasure to the Prado Museum and the Museum of Modern Art -whose funds were assigned to the Prado in 1971-, which amount to 32 pieces, and those from the deliveries in deposit of the Service for the Defense of the National Artistic Heritage, 38 in total.

The Prado exhibits in the Baja Norte Gallery of the Villanueva building a selection of eleven of these works, which can be seen from today until May 2 and among which stands out a snowy landscape attributed to Brueghel the Younger and dated after 1625 and two works by Eugenio Lucas Villamil, from the nineteenth century: "Scene of majos and celestina" and "Assault on the stagecoach".

Also "The Nativity" (1490) and "Adoration of the Magi" (1490) by Francisco de Osona; "Marina: naufragio de un galeón" (1841) by Antonio de Brugada; a portrait of "El general Pedro Caro Sureda, marqués de la Romana" (circa 1815) by Vicente López Portaña, another entitled "Señora sentada" by P. Lucas, and three medals.

Among the works classified as seized are also paintings by Sorolla, Carlos de Haes, José Gutiérrez de la Vega, Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, the workshop of Rubens, José Jiménez Donoso or Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.

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