Francesco Goya's ‘Scene from the Spanish War of Independence’ from the Museum of Arts in Budapest has been put on display at the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.

It was painted it in 1810, four years before the famous ‘The Third of May, 1808. The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid’, in the collection of the  Prado Museum in Madrid.

At the end of last month, Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’, the most valuable painting in the Czartoryski Museum, travelled to Budapest and is one of the highlights of the’From Boticelli to Titian’ exhibition there.

The Goya painting is to return to its home city at the end of February. Polish art conservators are worried, however, that contrary to earlier pledges by the Czartoryski Foundation, the owner of  ‘Lady with an Ermine’, the Leonardo masterpiece may remain out of Poland for much longer. 

The Czartoryski Museum is to close for a major renovation and according to reports from Kraków’s artistic circles the Czartoryski Museum has planned further journeys for ‘Lady with an Ermine’. No details have been disclosed so far. Art conservators earlier said that after the end of the Budapest show the painting should remain in Krakow for at least ten years. (mk)