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Standing Male Figure: Study for a Portrait
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Standing Male Figure: Study for a Portrait

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1965

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

1618–1682Spain

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