The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1650/1656

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over red and black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 28 x 23.1 cm (11 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1978.105.1

Artists / Makers

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (artist) Spanish, 1617 - 1682

Image Use

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Inscription

in later hand, lower right verso: Murillo c LXIII ancien A. Larouse

Provenance

J.I. de Espinosa y Tello de Guzmán, 3rd Conde del Aguila [c. 1760-1808]; Julian Williams, British vice-consul, Seville; Frank Hall Standish, Seville [1799-1840]; bequeathed 1841 to Louis Philippe; (his sale, Paris, 6 December 1852, no. 593); (sale, Versailles, J. P. Chapelle 1 March 1970, no. 132); Jacques Petit-Horry, Paris; purchased by NGA, 1978.

Associated Names

Chapelle, J. P.
Petit-Hory, Jacques, Monsieur
Philippe, Louis
Standish, Frank Hall
Williams, Julian
de Espinosa y Tello de Guzmán, J. I.

Exhibition History

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

2012: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). Dibujos, Fundación Botín, Santander, 2012, cat. no. 17.

Bibliography

1976: Brown, Jonathan. Murillo and His Drawings. Princeton, 1976: 7.