Two Urchins eating Melon and Grapes (after Murillo)
after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville 1617 - Seville 1682)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1500 x 1250 x 70 mm
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Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726065
Caption
Murillo’s style of painting the street children of his native Seville was unprecedented. He employs great naturalism, employing a sombre palette and strong chiaroscuro, contrasting lights and darks, and very little background detail. They are caught, like a photographic snapshot, playing or eating, but are very rarely aware of an onlooker. Along with the version bought by Ralph Bakes now at Kingston Lacy (NT), it is amongst the first examples of Spanish 17th-century painting to have been collected in England, albeit not an autograph version. The original of around 1645/6 and once owned by the Antwerp Postmaster, J.B.Anthoine (d.1691), in 1678, is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Two Urchins eating Melon and Grapes(after Murillo), after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville 1617 – Seville 1682), late 17th century. This is an early copy of the picture in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, circa 1645/46. NOTE : On rehanging of this item, a label on the top rear of the frame reads as follows :- 16 Pictures, 11 Frames - From G F Luttrell Dunster Castle.
Provenance
In 1910 inventory in Drawing Room;previously on loan, 1975; gift of Lt.-Col.Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (1919 – 2007) to the National Trust in 1981
Credit line
Dunster Castle, The Luttrell Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville 1617 - Seville 1682), artist