Leticia Azcue Brea earned her PhD from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid with a thesis on La escultura en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Catálogo y estudio, which was published in 1994. She is a member of the Cuerpo Facultativo de Conservadores de Museos and has been chief curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Museo Nacional del Prado since 2004 and a member of the board of trustees of the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid since 2007. She conducts research and publishes studies on Spanish sculpture of the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She has curated Solidez y belleza. El escultor Miguel Blay en el Museo del Prado (2016), among other exhibitions. She is currently writing the catalogue raisonné of the Museo del Prado’s collection of nineteenth-century sculpture.