Lot Essay
Another version is in the collection of the Museo del Prado. That picture was regarded by Gaya Nuño as a copy (J. A. Gaya Nuño, L'opera completa di Murillo, 1978, no.336, illustrated) but was tentatively accepted as autograph by Angulo (op. cit., II, pp.193-4, no.209, and III, pl.103)