ID 1361028
Lot 35 | BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (SEVILLE 1617-1682)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
Travelers on donkeys approaching a ruined city gate
signed 'Bartolome Murillo f.' (lower center) and numbered '136' (upper left)
pen and brown ink, brown wash
8 3/8 x 5 ¼ in (21.4 x 13.5 cm)
Provenance
Charles Morse; Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1873, lot 153.
Henri Huth (1815-1878), Wykehurst, Bolney Sussex; by descent to
Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Fosbury Manor, Wiltshire; possibly Sotheby’s, London, 13 June 1911, lot 167.
with James Tregaskis, London (The Caxton Head Catalogue, 1913, no. 629).
Parke Pittar Mayhew, London; then by descent.
Literature
J. Brown, Murillo and his drawings, exhib. cat., Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 1976, no. 95.
D. Angulo Íñiguez, ‘Exposición de dibujos de Murillo en Princeton’, Archivio Español de Arte, L, no. 199, 1977, p. 340.
D. Angulo Íñiguez, Murillo, Madrid, 1981, II, p. 312, under no. 404, ill.
J. Brown, Murillo.Virtuoso Draftsman, New Haven, 2012, no. 91.
M.B. Mena Marqués, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). Dibujos - Catálogo Razonado, Santander, 2015, no. 7, ill.
F. Loffredo, 'Murillo's ruins', in Murillo From Heaven to Earth, exhib. cat., Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2022, p. 57, ill.
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