The Good Shepherd
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
20th century
Medium
Facsimile reproduction
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 13/16 × 9 7/16 in. (30 × 24 cm)
Classification
Prints-Facsimiles
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1964
Accession Number
64.542(1)
Tags
PortraitsWomenSheepShepherds
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