The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is presenting 'Splendeurs du baroque', an exhibition dedicated to Hispanic Baroque art and organized in collaboration with the Hispanic Society of America of New York. Running from 26 March to 2 August 2026, the show brings together around 40 major works and, according to the museum, offers the public in France a first opportunity to see this group assembled together.
The exhibition is built around paintings by some of the best-known names of Spain’s Golden Age, including Diego Velázquez, El Greco and Francisco de Zurbarán. The museum describes the selection as a rare concentration of works from the Hispanic Society, an institution founded in New York in 1904 by the American scholar and patron Archer Milton Huntington. The partnership comes as the Hispanic Society is carrying out a major renovation of its historic buildings.
According to the museum’s exhibition materials, 'Splendeurs du baroque' is intended to show the breadth of Spanish Baroque painting across the 16th and 17th centuries, when Catholic Counter-Reformation culture shaped visual production and painting became a key medium for both religious and political expression. The curatorial framing places spiritual subjects at the centre of the period while also underlining the importance of portraiture, a genre that developed strongly in the same era.
Within that historical arc, the exhibition sets El Greco’s visionary spirituality alongside Zurbarán’s more sober religious compositions and Velázquez’s portraiture, which the museum describes as giving new depth to the representation of character and psychology. The exhibition page also notes that Velázquez’s 'Portrait de Jeune fille' is among the works that help anchor this reading of the period.
The museum presents the show as a dialogue between major figures of Spanish painting and their contemporaries, with attention to the artistic exchanges that shaped the baroque language. The exhibition text refers to influences from Italy and Flanders, as well as to exchanges with the American world, as part of the broader cultural context of the works on view.
The exhibition is co-commissioned by Guillaume Kientz, director and CEO of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York, and Pierre Curie, conservator at the Musée Jacquemart-André. The museum’s materials identify Kientz as a specialist in Spanish painting who previously worked at the Louvre and the Kimbell Art Museum, while Curie is described as a specialist in Italian and Spanish 17th-century painting and as co-curator of the museum’s exhibitions since 2016.
Practical information on the exhibition page lists the venue as the Musée Jacquemart-André, 158 boulevard Haussmann in Paris, with opening hours from Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fridays until 10 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays until 7 p.m. Ticket prices are listed at €19 for standard admission, €18 for seniors, €15.50 reduced, €10 for ages 7 to 18, and €51 for a family ticket for two adults and two children.
