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Title: Virgin and Child. Artist: Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville) Date: 1670s. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 65 1/4 x 43 in. (165.7 x 109.2 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1943. Accession Number: 43.13. European Paintings at The Met.
Of these children, only five outlived their mother, and only one, Gabriel (1655–1700) later carried on the work of Bartolome as a painter. The year of his marriage, Murillo received the first major commission of his career. This was to paint eleven canvases for the convent of San Francisco in Seville.
Born into a family of many siblings, he was orphaned as a child and taken in by one of his sisters. He must have trained with Juan del Castillo, to judge by the characteristics of his early style. In 1645 he married Beatriz Cabrera, who bore him several children.
Gaspar Esteban, a barber-surgeon, had been married to María Murillo for thirty years and Bartolomé was the last of their fourteen children. Effectively an only child, young Bartolomé lived a comfortable and happy life until around his ninth birthday, when his father and mother died within months of one another.
The Virgin and Child are slightly larger than life-size and fill a major portion of the painting´s surface, creating a sense of monumentality. In this painting, the Virgin is seated on a stone bench and is, herself, serving as a throne for the Christ Child, who rests on her right leg.
The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables by Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is a picture practically overflowing with sweetness. At its center is the Virgin, almost transcendent in her loveliness, clothed in a diaphanous white gown.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Sevilla, bautizado el 1 de enero de 1618-3 de abril de 1682) fue un pintor barroco español. Formado en el naturalismo tardío, evolucionó hacia fórmulas propias del barroco pleno con una sensibilidad que a veces anticipa el rococó en algunas de sus más peculiares e imitadas creaciones iconográficas ...
