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Meadows Museum acquires six new paintings and drawings

Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum announces the acquisition of six new paintings and drawings, including important works by influential Spanish artists Alonso Cano, Miguel Jacinto Meléndez and Juan de Valdés Leal.

Juan Valdés Leal (Spanish, 1622-1690), Apparition of Christ to Saint Ignatius on the Road to Rome, 1660-64. Black and red chalk on paper. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum Purchase with funds generously provided by Friends and Supporters of the Meadows Museum, MM.2013.05
Juan Valdés Leal (Spanish, 1622-1690), Apparition of Christ to Saint Ignatius on the Road to Rome, 1660-64. Black and red chalk on paper. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum Purchase with funds generously provided by Friends and Supporters of the Meadows Museum, MM.2013.05
The six new works are Alonso Cano’s painting Christ Child (c. 1636-38); pendant paintings by Miguel Jacinto Meléndez, Portraits of Philip V, King of Spain, and his first wife, María Luisa Gabriela of Savoy (c. 1701-03); a sanguine and black chalk drawing by Juan de Valdés Leal, Apparition of Christ to Saint Ignatius on his Way to Rome (c. 1662); a chalk drawing by Zacarías González Velázquez, Mary Magdalene and Head of a Moor (1793); and a pencil drawing by Antonio Carnicero, María Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain (1789).

The Meadows Museum is the leading U.S. institution focused on the study and presentation of the art of Spain. In 1962, Dallas businessman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows donated his private collection of Spanish paintings, as well as funds to start a museum, to Southern Methodist University. The Museum opened to the public in 1965, marking the first step in fulfilling Meadows’ vision to create “a small Prado in Texas.”

More information: www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org