The Nativity
ca. 1665–70
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk
Dimensions
10-3/4 x 9 in. (27.3 x 22.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Clifford A. Furst Bequest, by exchange, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1995
Accession Number
1995.375
Tags
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