Four Figures on a Step is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, created c. 1655–1660, now held in the Kimbell Art Museum, which bought it from the heirs of Charles Russell Feldman in 1984. [1] Possibly showing a bawd, it is rare in the artist's oeuvre and largely unprecedented in contemporary Spanish art.
Its first recorded owner was Charles Berners Plestow of Watlington Hall in Norfolk, who owned it before 1830. It was then bought from Richard Abraham in London by Sir Charles Coote, 9th Baronet for £126, passing through the Coote family until being sold by the 13th baronet in 1923, arriving in the United States two years later. [2] [3] [4]
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively realistic portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive record of the everyday life of his times. He also painted two self-portraits, one in the Frick Collection portraying him in his 30s, and one in London's National Gallery portraying him about 20 years later. In 2017–18, the two museums held an exhibition of them.
Timothy Potts is an Australian art historian, archaeologist, and museum director. He became the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum on 1 September 2012.
The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is an art museum in Madrid, Spain. It houses the art collection of José Lázaro Galdiano. The museum was inaugurated on 27 January 1951.
Portrait of Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga is an oil on canvas portrait of the Spanish historian, writer and nobleman Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga, measuring 113 cm by 94 cm. It has been thought to be an autograph work by the Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, then a copy after an original work by Murillo, and is now thought to be an autograph work once again following a 2017 re-attribution by the art historian Benito Navarrete Prieto. It dates to around 1653.
The Young Beggar is a genre painting by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Also known as The Lice-Ridden Boy due to the figure of a young boy delousing himself in the painting, The Young Beggar is the first known depiction of a street urchin by Murillo.
The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables or The Immaculate Conception of Soult is an oil painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. It was painted c. 1678 and measures 274 cm × 190 cm. Looted by Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult in 1813 and taken to France, it was bought by the Louvre in 1852. It has been held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid, since 1941.
Liberation of Peter is a 1665–1667 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, depicting a scene of the liberation of Peter from Acts 12 : 5–17. It is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
The Flight into Egypt is a 1647–1650 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, which since 1948 has been in the Detroit Institute of Arts. It shows the flight into Egypt, a popular motif in Christian art from the 14th century onwards. It first appears in the written record whilst in the collection of Sir William Chapman in London, passing through other British collections until its sale at Christie's in London in 1945. It was bought by Maurice Harris, who took it to New York and donated it to its present home later that decade.
The Good Shepherd is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, from c. 1660. It is held in the Prado Museum, in Madrid. It has the Inventory number P00962
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, created in 1672, commissioned by Miguel de Mañara for the church of San Jorge in the Hospital de la Hermandad de la Caridad in Seville, where it still hangs in its original position. Showing Elizabeth of Hungary pouring water on the head of a child affected by tinea capitis, it forms part of a group of Murillo works in the church on the works of pity and the exercise of charity.
The La Colasal Immaculate Conception is a c. 1645-1655 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville.
The Walpole Immaculate Conception is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, from c. 1680. It is named after English politician Robert Walpole, having formed part of his collection at Houghton Hall. It was acquired by Catherine the Great in 1779 with the rest of that collection and is now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Christ on the Cross may refer to one of four oil on canvas paintings by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo:
The Flower Girl is a c. 1665-1670 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in London.
The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities is an oil painting on canvas of c. 1675–1682 by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the National Gallery, London. It depicts a young Jesus with the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, together with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. The subject, inspired by the Finding in the Temple, is rare, though it does appear elsewhere in Spanish and Flemish art.
Ecce Homo is an oil on panel painting of the Ecce Homo motif by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, created c. 1672-1678, originally commissioned for Seville Cathedral and now held in the El Paso Museum of Art.
Saint Thomas of Villanova Healing a Lame Man is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, created c. 1675. It is held in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, having been bought for Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria by General Sebastiani in Paris in 1815. It depicts a miracle performed by the Spanish saint Thomas of Villanova.
Abraham and the Three Angels is a c. 1670-1674 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, which bought it in 1948.
Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda is a 1667-1670 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the National Gallery, London, to which it was presented by the Art Fund, which had bought it for £8,000 the body had been given by Graham Robertson's executors. It had been in Paris by 1812 before being acquired by Colonel George Tomline and remaining in British private collections until 1950.
Our Lady of the Rosary or 'Madonna and Child is a 1648-1650 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. On 24 November 1784 it was bought from the Comte de Vaudreuil for 9,001 livres by Louis XVI and displayed at the Muséum central des arts from 1793 onwards. It remains owned by the Louvre Museum, though it has been on long-loan to the Goya Museum in Castres since 1949.
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