Property from the Hispanic Society Museum, to benefit Collection Care and the Acquisition Fund, traces the reach of Spanish influence across European painting from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Sacred imagery anchors the group: a canvas of Saint Dominic in Prayer from the workshop of El Greco; a Saint Francis in Ecstasy after Francisco de Zurbarán; and Hendrick de Somer’s Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgement, steeped in the Neapolitan naturalism of Jusepe de Ribera.

Court portraiture is represented by a commanding full-length of Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain, by an artist in the circle of Peter Paul Rubens — recorded in 1655 in the posthumous inventory of the Marqués de Leganés and later in New York in 1904 —together with a fine bust-length Philip IV after Diego Velázquez.

Goya’s influence is elegantly captured in Agustín Esteve y Marqués’s family portrait of the Marquess and Marchioness of Villafranca with their child, a work that balances neoclassical poise with a new emotional realism shaped by his example.