Name: CIRCLE OF BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (Seville 1617-1682)
Brand: Christ the Good Shepherd
Price: 32000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

CIRCLE OF BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (Seville 1617-1682)
Christ the Good Shepherd
oil on canvas
22¹⁄₄ x 16¹⁄₂ in. (56.5 x 41.9 cm.)

Queen Isabella II of Spain (1830-1904), as Murillo, by whom gifted to,
François Guizot (1787-1874), Foreign Minister of King Louis Philippe I of France, circa 1846.
Anonymous sale; Drouot, Paris, 1 May 1874, as Murillo, where acquired by the following for 120,000 ff.,
Comte Henri de Greffuhle (1848-1932), Paris.
[Collection de M. S...]; Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1900, lot 7, as Murillo.
with Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, where acquired in 1906 by,
Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), New York, and by whom presented in 1908 to the Hispanic Society of America.

E.H. Le Brun-Dalbanne, L'Exposition d'Alsace-Lorraine, Paris, 1875, pp. 18-19, tentatively attributed to Murillo.
C. Gueullette, 'La Collection de M.H. de Greffulhe', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XV, January 1877, pp. 155-156, as Murillo.
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, New York and London, 1883, p. 186, no. 169, as Murillo.
A.L. Mayer, Murillo, Klassiker der Kunst, XXII, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913, p. 83, as Murillo.
V. von Loga, 'Los cuadros de la "Hispanic Society of America"', Museum, III, 1913, p. 127, as Murillo.
Hispanic Society of America, List of Paintings, New York, 1925, no. A81, as Attributed to Bernardo German Llorente.
E. du Gué Trapier, Catalogue of Paintings (16th, 17th, and 18th centuries) in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1929, pp. 190-191, as School of Murillo.
Hispanic Society of America, School of Murillo in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1930, no. A81.
E. du Gué Trapier, 'A Christ Child as the Good Shepherd attributed to the School of Murillo in the Hispanic Society's Collection', Madrid, 1966, as possibly by Alonso Miguel de Tobar.
D. Angulo Íñiguez, Murillo, catálogo crítico, II, Madrid, 1981, p. 189, under no. 204.
M.A. Codding, 'A Legacy of Spanish Art for America: Archer M. Huntington and the Hispanic Society of America', Manet/Velázquez. The French Taste for Spanish Painting, G. Tinterow and G. Lacambre eds., exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 2003, p. 316, as Circle of Murillo.

Paris, Alsace Lorraine Exhibition, 1874, as Murillo.

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This picture relates to an autograph painting formerly in the collection of Miriam Rothschild (sold Aguttes, Paris, 28 June 2022, lot 19), as well as to a drawing attributed to Murillo in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (inv. no. 38580). The Hispanic Society's picture deviates from the ex-Rothschild composition in the position of Christ's head, the vegetation in the background, and in the handling of the sky. Upon the exhibition of the present painting in Paris in 1874, the art historian Eugène Henri Le Brun-Dalbanne expressed his doubts as to its authenticity, but reasoned that, since Queen Isabella believed it to be by Murillo, he would call it such as well (loc. cit.). Indeed, the teenage queen thought highly enough of the picture to bestow it in 1846 upon François Guizot, Foreign Minister to the French King Louis Philippe I (1773-1850), as a token of her thanks for his role in arranging her marriage, as well as that of her sister (see du Gué Trapier, 1966, loc. cit.). After Guizot's death in 1874, the painting changed hands in a single-lot sale devoted to 'El Pastorcito', passing to Comte Henri de Greffuhle (1848-1932). Following the picture's acquisition in 1908 by the Hispanic Society, it has been ascribed in their publications variously to 'School of Murillo' and to specific followers including Bernardo Germán de Llórente (Hispanic Society of America, 1925, loc. cit.) and Alonso Miguel de Tobar (du Gué Trapier, 1966, loc. cit.).