Overview
- El Prado multiplicado opens in Room 60 of the Villanueva building with 44 original prints dated between 1863 and 1939 on view through April 5.
- The museum highlights a corpus of more than 10,000 photographs that has been catalogued and published online under the HF signature after a dedicated recovery effort.
- Curators present the images as a research resource that documents lost layouts, furnishings and decoration, supports restoration, and records works even before they entered the Prado.
- The selection traces processes such as albumen, carbon, gelatin and phototypy while showing how postcards and standardized formats drove the Prado’s public diffusion.
- Works by studios and photographers including Juan Laurent, José Lacoste, Braun, Moreno and Domenico Anderson underscore a collection that the director says gives photography full recognition at the Prado.