VI Series Treasures of Spanish Museums - Bicentennial of the Prado

For learn more details about each of these works, as well as their authors, click on the name of each of the works and you can link directly to the Prado Museum website.

If you would like to see enlarged images of the obverse and reverse of these coins, click on the following links: "The Naked Maja" , "Prince Baltasar Carlos, on horseback" and "The Annunciation" .

The last of the silver pieces represents a fragment of the work " The Annunciation " , made by Domenicos Theotocopoulos, El Greco, between 1597 and 1600.

The obverse of the second coin presents the work " Prince Baltasar Carlos, on horseback " made by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez between 1634 and 1635.

The first piece reproduces on its obverse the work titled " La Maja Naked " , made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes before 1800.

Each of these three pieces offers a color representation of some of the pictorial works housed in this Museum.

For learn more details about each of these works, as well as their authors, click on the name of each of the works and you can link directly to the Prado Museum website.

If you want to see enlarged images of the obverse and reverse of these coins, click on the following links: "Charles V" , "The Hunt for Meleager" and "Orestes and Pílades or Group of San Ildefonso" .

The third piece of this metric represents on the obverse, an image of the sculptural work entitled " Orestes and Pílades or Group of San Ildefonso ", made by the School of Pasiteles around the year 10 BC

The obverse of the second coin reproduces an image of the work " The Hunt for Meleagro " , made by Giovanni di Benedetto between 1583 and 1584.

The first piece offers on its obverse a fragment of the sculptural work titled " Charles V " , made by Leone Leoni around 1553.

Each one of the pieces of two shields, included in this collection, On the obverse they represent a fragment of some of the numerous sculptures that this Museum houses.

Description

• Composition: Silver 999 thousandths
• Face value: €10
• Weight: 31.41 grams
• Dimensions: 36x36mm
• Quality: Proof
• Maximum circulation: 5,000 units per model

 Information: FNMT