MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY
T. LEMAN HARE
MURILLO
1618-1682
PLATE I.—THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. Frontispiece.
(From the Louvre, Paris)
This greatly admired canvas is one of the painter's many studies of afamiliar subject. There are more than a dozen pictures of theImmaculate Conception whose authenticity is undisputed, and there aremany others on offer in Spain, clever and sometimes old imitations ofthe master's mannerisms. In this case the figure of the Virgin israther over-elaborated, but the treatment of the attendant cherubs isdelightful and the composition very skilful.
PLATE I.—THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
MURILLO
BY S. L. BENSUSAN
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
1910
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Plate I. The Immaculate Conception . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece From the Louvre, Paris II. The Beggar Girl From the Dulwich Gallery III. The Holy Family From the Louvre, Paris IV. Madonna of the Rosary From the Dulwich Gallery V. The Beggar Boy From the Dulwich Gallery VI. A Boy Drinking From the National Gallery, London VII. The Nativity From the Louvre, Paris VIII. The Marriage of the Virgin From the Wallace Collection
I
There have been long years in which the name of Bartolomé Esteban,known to the world as Murillo, was one to conjure with. Velazquez, ElGreco, Ribera, Zurburan, Goya, were long uncertain in their appeal,recog