MADRID.- The Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, today presided over a plenary session of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado in which it was unanimously decided to exercise the option to purchase The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day, an autograph work by Peter Bruegel the Elder. The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day will join the Museum’s collections once the purchase option has been formalised for the sum of 7 million Euros at which it has been valued. On 23 September the Minister announced the discovery of this previously unknown work by Bruegel the Elder, a key figure in 16th-century Flemish painting. It was attributed to the artist by the Museo del Prado following various months of study and restoration at the Museum. The reappearance of this painting can be considered a major discovery for the history of art. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the “new Bosch” as he