And we would like to tell you a story.

The story of “Estudio del natural”,

painted in 1887.

It’s a painting of a woman.

But not only because it represents the figure of a women.

At the time, the painting was presented as a work by Luis Lármig.

But as a matter of fact, the author was a woman:

Concepción Figuera Martínez y Güertero.

She used the pseudonym that her uncle used, a politician, also a writer.

She painted this work because she expected to be judged by her worth,

independently from the fact that she was a woman.

She hid her name, her gender,

waiting for a fairer judgment.

The press considered the painting as a promising artwork by a young artist.

The media emphasized its quality and its merits.

The painting even received a diploma

and was acquired by the State.

Until recently,

art history considered it as an artwork by Luis Lármig.

Nothing else.

This is only one of the unknown stories

that the Museum will analyze

together with the role of women in art during the XIXth century

in its upcoming exhibition:

“Uninvited Guests”.

Concepción Figuera Martínez y Guertero is, unfortunately,

only one of the artists that, even today, are unnoticed by art history,

we barely know more that essential information and the size of the work.