Standing Male Figure: Study for a Portrait
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
1670–80
Medium
Pen and brown ink over black chalk underdrawing on off-white paper (recto); black chalk (verso)
Dimensions
5-5/8 x 4 in. (14.3 x 10.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.66.12
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1617–1682
Son of Gaspar Esteban, a barber-surgeon, and María Pérez. He was orphaned at the age of ten and brought up by his maternal uncle, who placed him as an apprentice with his relative Juan del Castillo, a painter in the Italian manner. He adopted the surname of his maternal grandmother, Elvira Murillo, and rarely signed or used that of his father. Comment on works: History; Portraits; Religious