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Virgin and Child

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Virgin and Child

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

1670s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Madonna and Child

Dimensions

65 1/4 x 43 in. (165.7 x 109.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1943

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

1618–1682 • Spain

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

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