We exhibit at major international fairs such as TEFAF Maastricht since 1999 and are members of the Círculo Velázquez at the Museo del Prado, Fundación Amigos Museo del Romanticismo, Fundación Amigos Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid and founding trustees of Fundación Arte Hispánico. Caylus has sponsored several publications such as La Pintura Andaluza del siglo XVII y sus fuentes grabadas by Benito Navarrete.
Retrato de la condesa de Chinchón
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Retrato de muchacha como Inmaculada
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
The most important was the sale of the famous Portrait of the Countess of Chinchón by Goya to the Prado Museum in the year 2000. Other examples of works by Goya that we have sold in the past are: Selfportrait at the easel (Museo Del Prado), Hercules and Omphale (Madrid, private collection) and Portrait of Luis María de Borbón y Vallábriga as a child to the Fundación Plaza Museo de Zaragoza.
In 2002 Caylus sold the famous Apostolado San Feliz to the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, a complete set of the twelve apostles by El Greco that had remained since the late nineteenth century in this noble family. The gallery has sold other works by El Greco in the past, such as: Bust of Christ in oval (private collection, France) and The Tears of St. Peter to the Museo Soumaya México D. F.
Among the Murillos sold in the past, Saint Lesmes and The Tears of St. Peter stand out, both in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. Francisco de Zurbarán is also present in the history of Caylus, two of the most important ones sold a few years ago are: Saint Francis in Ecstasy (Museo Soumaya Mexico D. F.) and his last Calvary to a London private collector. Three important Renaissance masterpieces handled by the gallery were Juan de Flandes imposing Baptism of Christ and Virgen de la Leche by Pedro Berruguete to the Abelló collection and a late Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo by Bronzino to the JASP collection in Mexico D. F. Jusepe de Ribera’s monumental Rest in the Flight to Egypt sold to the Fondo Cultural Villar-Mir was the most important work by the Españoleto in the gallery’s hands.
The latest sales include the Portrait of the Marquise of Espeja by Federico de Madrazo and The Penitent Magdalene by Alonso Cano (both to the Prado), The Adoration of the Magi by The Master of Sigena and Portrait of Richard Worsham Meade by Vicente López Portaña, both to the Meadows Museum in Dallas, that started their long standing relationship with us through the purchase of Juan Bautista Maino’s Adoration of the Shepherds. The Museo del Romanticismo has recently acquired the Madonna of the Goldfinch by Rafael Tegeo.
Caylus has also recently sold an important group of masterpieces to the Abelló collection including three works by Francisco de Goya: La Cucaña, The Fire, The Assault of the Diligence and a rare still-life by Juan Sanchez Cotán. The last El Greco in the hands of the gallery now in a private NY collection is Saint Jerome and the most recent sales have been the tender Inmaculada niña by a young Diego Velázquez painted in 1616 –now in a Madrid private collection– and a very sensual roman St. Sebastian by Valentin de Boulogne to a Brussels collector.
Bodegón
Juán Sánchez Cotán
Virgen con el Niño y san Juanito
Luisa Roldán
Among recent institutional sales, the monumental The Rising of the Cross by Antonio de Torres stands out, which was bought by the LACMA in 2016. Caylus deals in important early Spanish sculpture and has recently sold a terracota group of the Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John by Luisa Roldán, called La Roldana, and a polychrome wood sculpture of St. Joseph with the Child by Pedro de Mena to the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid. Old Master Drawings is another area in the gallery’s activities. The sale of the Alcubierre Album in 2005 stands out, the most important historical group of Andalusian drawings assembled at the end of the eighteenth century.