He Prado Museum asks for help to find the picture ‘Santa Cecilia’, by Anton Raphael Mengsfrom the 18th century, whose trail is lost in 2001 in Rome and that the Pinacoteca would want to include in its exhibition next November.
Through a video posted on the social networks of the museum, the Deputy Director of Conservation and Research of the PRADO since 2017, Andrés Úbeda, asks for help to locate the picture and recognize that “this call has a point of despair.”
Úbeda is co-comissed of the great exhibition of the Czech painter, first painter of Carlos III, who prepares the meadow for next November and, in the video he explains that the exhibition “is practically ready” and already have “a magnificent list of works “, But they lack” one that has a lot of interest, the ‘Santa Cecilia’. ”
The latest known information about the work is included in the catalog of the exhibition dedicated to the artist that took place in 2001 (Steffi Roettgen (ed.), Mengs. 203, no. Then he was in a private collection in the Italian capital.
“Our detective work has reached a point that we don’t know how to leave”
In preparation of the exhibition, Úbeda explains that he traveled to Rome last July and went to the last known address. The property goalkeeper informed him that the collector had died and the family had moved to another home about which he had no information.
“Our detective work has reached a point that we do not know how to leave,” says Úbeda, who acknowledges that “this call has a point of despair.”
Thus, he asks who has information about the whereabouts of ‘Santa Cecilia’ or knows how to contact the current owners, who please report to the Prado Museum since “his presence would be of great importance for the great exhibition ‘Anton Raphael Mengs. The greatest painter of the eighteenth century ‘.
“That’s why we release a call for help in case someone is able to help us locate the work; It is a work that we would really want to see in the exhibition, ”says Úbeda.
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