File:The Young St. John the Baptist LCCN2005696654.jpg

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• Inscriptions: Lower left verso in black chalk upside down: 004090.5. In brown ink, lower left verso: "...Real."
• Title, date, subject, and physical description devised by Diane de Grazia, 2014.
• Title in Catalog of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection of Engravings, 1905, p. 372: St. John and lamb.
• Attributed on old mat to: Murillo.
• Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection.
• Gift; Gertrude M. Hubbard; 1898; (DLC/PP-1898:R01).
• The traditional attribution of this drawing to Murillo appears to be correct. The style accords with other works by the artist dating to the 1650s, when he was enjoying great popularity in his native Seville. Too late to be included in Jonathan Brown's Murillo. Virtuoso Draftsman (New Haven and London, 2011), the sheet accords with works published there and is accepted by the author (e-mail September 17, 2012, in LC files). Paintings and drawings of Saint John the Baptist are abundant in Murillo's oeuvre. (For paintings of this subject see, for example, those in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna [ca. 1650: Enrique Valdivieso, Murillo. Catalogo Razonado de Pinturas, Madrid, 2010, p. 278, cat. no. 23], and the National Gallery, London [ca. 1660-65: Valdivieso 2010, p. 382, cat. no. 169]). The artist was well known for his genre pictures of children, which exhibit an empathy with childhood beauty and calm. The religious paintings and drawings of the young Saint John are extensions of these works.
• Condition assessment: Some foxing; spreading of ink. Stains, 2014.