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Ackland Art Museum

The Ackland Art Museum’s permanent collection consists of more than 20,000 works of art, featuring North Carolina’s premier collections of Asian art and works of art on paper —drawings, prints, and photographs— as well as significant collections of European works, twentieth-century and contemporary art, and North Carolina pottery.

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Spanish collection

The following 14 Spanish artworks are a selection from the collection of the Ackland Art Museum.

Large Plate

by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1400–1500

Medium
Earthenware, luster-ware
Dimensions
2 1/4 x 15 5/8 x 15 5/8 in. (5.7 x 39.7 x 39.7 cm)
Credits
Gift of Herbert and Taffy Bodman

15th century

Half length figure of a young man

by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1600–1700

Medium
Wood with polychrome and gilding
Dimensions
Not measured
Credits
Gift of Charles Millard

17th century

The Stigmatization of Saint Francis

by Vicente Carducho, circa 1610–1630

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64 1/4 x 47 in. (163.2 x 119.4 cm)
Credits
The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund

17th century

The Penitent Saint Peter

by Jusepe de Ribera, 1621

Medium
Etching with engraving
Dimensions
12 7/16 × 9 9/16 in. (31.6 × 24.3 cm)
Credits
The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund

17th century

Until Death (Hasta La Muerte) from Los Caprichos

by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1799

Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint
Dimensions
10 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (27.3 x 19.4 cm)
Credits
Ackland Fund
Notes

Plate 55 from Los Caprichos

18th century

Daniel Moreau Barringer

by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1852

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
56 x 39 1/8 in. (142.2 x 99.4 cm)
Credits
Gift of Carla Barringer Rabinowitz

19th century

Elizabeth (Wethered) Barringer

by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1852

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
56 x 39 1/4 in. (142.2 x 99.7 cm)
Credits
Gift of Carla Barringer Rabinowitz

19th century

Granada, Alhambra, Courtyard with Reflecting Pool

by Luis Leon Masson, circa 1863

Medium
Albumen Print from wet collodion negative on original mount
Dimensions
9 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (24.4 × 31.4 cm)
Credits
Gift of Charles Millard

19th century

And They (The Women) Are Wild Beasts, from Los Desastres De La Guerra

by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1906

Medium
Etching with aquatint
Dimensions
9 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (23.5 x 30.2 cm)
Credits
UNC Art Department Collection
Notes

Plate 5 from Los Desastres de La Guerra, 4th edition, 1906

20th century

Untitled, from André Breton, Le revolver à cheveux blancs

by Salvador Dalí, 1932

Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/16 × 4 11/16 in. (15.4 × 11.9 cm). Sheet: 7 9/16 × 11 1/8 in. (19.2 × 28.3 cm)
Credits
The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund
Notes

From André Breton, The White-Haired Revolver

20th century

Blind Minotaur Led by a Young Girl through the Night

by Pablo Picasso, 1934

Medium
Etching, aquatint, and engraving
Dimensions
13 1/2 x 17 7/8 in. (34.3 x 45.4 cm)
Credits
Ackland Fund
Notes

Nº. 96 from Vollard Suite

20th century

Martha Daura, The Artist's Daughter

by Pierre Daura, circa 1935

Medium
Ink
Dimensions
10 x 7 5/8 in. (25.4 x 19.4 cm)
Credits
Gift of Martha R. Daura

20th century

The Giantess (La géante)

by Joan Miró, 1938

Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Image: 13 11/16 × 9 3/8 in. (34.8 × 23.8 cm). Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 15/16 in. (44.8 × 32.9 cm)
Credits
Ackland Fund

20th century

Paulette

by Luis Quintanilla, 1940

Medium
Etching
Dimensions
13 3/8 × 9 7/8 in. (34 × 25.1 cm)
Credits
Gift of W. P. Jacocks

20th century