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The Good Shepherd
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The Good Shepherd

Medium

Facsimile reproduction

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 13/16 × 9 7/16 in. (30 × 24 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1964

Classification

Prints-Facsimiles

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