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Antique dealers / collectors and private collections / auction houses / art galleries
In most cases, the works that left their original location in Castile and León and crossed Spanish borders began a long journey to dealers, antique dealers, auction houses and art galleries, mainly in Paris, London and New York. In this repertoire of intermediate locations we even find the names of some of the agents who favoured the export of these treasures, such as: Raimundo de Madrazo, John Charles Robinson, Arthur Byne and Mildred Stapley Byne, Raimundo Ruiz...; we also find antiques firms: The Spanish Art Gallery, M. Knoedler & Co., Duveen Brothers, Jacques Seligmann & Co., French & Co. etc.
Along the way, these works were added to private collections - among which we discover prominent figures in the history of collecting: John P. Morgan, A. M. Huntington, William R. Hearst, George Blumenthal, Samuel H. Kress, Charles Deering, etc.– until they finally found their way to important museum institutions of which they were benefactors, or to which they decided to bequeath part of their repertoire of goods.
Exploring these intermediate steps travelled by these objects before arriving at their current location allows us to discover a whole mosaic of figures and places with which to trace the history of this rich cultural legacy scattered around the world.
