Raimundo de Madrazo

This exhibition catalog accompanies the first major retrospective dedicated to Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841–1920), one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of the late nineteenth century. His international career between Madrid, Paris, and New York earned him recognition for refined portraits, luminous interiors, and elegant depictions of bourgeois life. A leading figure of Spanish cosmopolitan painting, Madrazo bridged academic tradition with modern sensibility, combining technical virtuosity with a distinctly modern attention to fashion, psychology, and social performance.

The catalog presents an extensive selection of paintings, drawings, and contextual materials drawn from international museums and private collections. Fundación MAPFRE has assembled this exhibition through significant institutional and private loans, offering a rare opportunity to study the artist’s oeuvre in depth.

Scholarly essays explore Madrazo’s artistic development, his family legacy, his role within the transnational art market of the Belle Époque, and his enduring influence on portrait painting in Spain and beyond. Richly illustrated and thoroughly researched, this volume provides both a critical reassessment of Madrazo’s career and an authoritative reference for collectors, historians, and admirers of 19th-century European painting.