Circle of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)

Sold by Order of the Executors of THE 6TH MARQUESS OF BUTE

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Circle of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)

Portrait of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, half length, in a golilla and a black coat

in a painted oval
29 3/8 x 23¾in. (74.5 x 60.5cm.)

In a late 16th Century cassetta frame

Provenance

Alfred Seymour, London, by 1879.
On the London Art Market in 1936.
Acquired by John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute (1881-1947), and by descent.

Literature

C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, London and New York, 1883, p. 297, no. 468d
A.L. Mayer, Anotaciones al arte y a las obras de Murillo, Revista Española de Arte, V, 1936, p. 47, illustrated
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Madrid, 1981, II, p. 321, under no. 413, and pp. 571-2, no. 2.789; III, pl. 638

Exhibited

London, South Kensington Museum, 1879

Lot Essay

Mayer considered the present picture, which shows Murillo at about the age of forty, an autograph work of c. 1668-70. It corresponds with a print by Juan Palomino of which two impressions are in the Carderera Collection in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (Angulo, op. cit., III, pl. 637); Angulo, judging from an old photograph, considered it 'not impossible' that the present painting is based on the print

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