Lot 244 A
244 A
The Property of the late LADY BROMLEY DAVENPORT, Sold by Order of the Executors
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Provenance
Edward Davies Davenport, by 1845, and by descent at Capesthorne
Hall, near Macclesfield, Cheshire
Literature
C. B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, 1883, p.280, no.425r
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, 1981, II, p.193, under no.208
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1845, no.90

Lot Essay

A 19th century inscription on a label on the stretcher reads 'A Sleeping Boy, a most capital picture of Murillio, as fine as any picture can be'.

A variant of the painting of c.1660-70 at Luton Hoo (Angulo Iñiguez, op. cit., II, pp.192-3, no.208, and III, pl.323)

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