The Good Shepherd (painting)

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The Good Shepherd is a c.1660 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid as Inventory number P00962 [1]

It and other works were bought in 1744 from the heirs of cardinal Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo by Elisabeth Farnese. [2]


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References

  1. Catalogue page
  2. (in Spanish) Morales, Nicolás; Quiles García, Fernando (2010). Sevilla y corte: las artes y el lustro real (1729-1733). Madrid: Casa de Velázquez. ISBN 978-84-9682-035-7, p 211

Bibliography (in Spanish)