Entierro de Santa Cecilia en las catacumbas de Roma

The work was commissioned from Luis de Madrazo in 1852, the same year it was painted in oil on canvas with dimensions of 302 × 252 cm.

It entered the collection of the Museo de la Trinidad after its foundation in 1837, when the Spanish state began consolidating religious artworks from dissolved ecclesiastical institutions. Upon the Museo de la Trinidad’s integration into the Museo del Prado in 1872, ownership transferred to the Prado, where the painting remains today.

Held by the Museo del Prado, the work is catalogued under the inventory number P00968. It entered the museum's collection as part of the Museo de la Trinidad holdings. The painting has been displayed in the Prado's permanent exhibition of Spanish religious art and featured in the retrospective 'Luis de Madrazo: 19th‑Century Spanish Painting' in 2004.

Luis de Madrazo's 1852 oil painting Entierro de Santa Cecilia en las catacumbas de Roma entered a corpus shaped by 19th-century Spanish academic art trends and religious sensibilities. Contemporary scholarship situates it within the artist's devotional oeuvre, emphasizing its technical execution and iconographic fidelity to Saint Cecilia traditions. The work's placement in Spanish institutional collections like the Museo del Prado reflects its significance as a religious artwork within European devotional painting.

Critical reception and later scholarship have analyzed its stylistic elements and devotional context, though specific exhibition histories remain unrecorded in available sources.

Luis de Madrazo’s 1852 oil painting, Entierro de Santa Cecilia en las catacumbas de Roma, presents a nocturnal interior where a small group attends the body of Saint Cecilia. The composition is confined to a dimly lit chamber, its limited palette emphasizing shadows and the solemnity of the moment.