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The Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia) was the favorite palace of Philip V and Isabel Farnese, and it was there that they kept the great pictorial treasures of their collection. Queen Isabel Farnese took a lively interest in Flemish paintings of diverse themes. The varied collection of sixteenth-century paintings includes The Money Changer and His Wife by Marinus Reymerswaele, Two Old Men Praying by Quintin Massys, and The Judgment of Solomon by the great still-life painter Joachim Beuckelaer.  

The collection also features superb seventeenth-century paintings, including still lifes by Osias Beert, Frans Snyders, and Adriaen Utrecht; hunting scenes by Jan Fyt, and religious subjects, such as two depicting The Rest on the Flight into Egypt and a Vase of Flowers by Jan Brueghel the Younger, a Virgin and Child with a Garland of Flowers by Jan van Kessel the Elder, and The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Frans Francken. Genre scenes also feature prominently, with several cabinet paintings by David Teniers, Mattheus van Hellemont, and Joos van Craesbeeck.  

Carmen García-Frías Checa, Curator of Old Painting-Patrimonio Nacional (December 2025)