The Archaeologyst Juan Cabré, Copyist at the Prado Museum

Abstract

The Juan Cabré Museum, in Calaceite (Teruel), maintains within its walls a score of paintings by the archaeologist the museum is named after. The aim of this article is to present a totally different image of this famous Aragonese archaeologist. The logbooks of copyists from the Museo Nacional del Prado bring to light the almost unpublished facet as a painter of one of the most important archaeologists of the 20^th century in our country. In addition to that, we would like to highlight the necessity of copying the great masters of painting as a learning method for new artists and how the most important museums allow students and amateurs to enter their galleries from the moment of their creation.