If you've been to the MFA recently and wondered if John Singer Sargent's masterpiece The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit had been lifted in some Gardner-esque heist or fallen victim to the molestations of an out-of-control art lover, rest assured. The painting is still in good shape and in better company. It's on loan to the Prado in Madrid, where, for the first time, it will be exhibited in the same room as Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, Sargent's direct inspiration.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit will be on display at the Prado through May 30, so Bostonian fans of the painting won't have to miss it for long. MFA Director Malcolm Rogers was on hand for the hanging of the painting, and he picked up an honorific for his troubles. Plácido Arango, president of the Royal Board of Trustees at the Prado, named Rogers a knight-commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic on behalf of King Juan Carlos I. (That's his name, even though there isn't a Juan Carlos II.)
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