The Infant St. John the Baptist

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

1618–82 · Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing. Composition outlined with black chalk inner line and brush and gray wash outer line; framing lines ruled in pen and gray-brown ink, possibly by the artist himself · Drawings and Prints

Artist

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Date

1618–82

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing. Composition outlined with black chalk inner line and brush and gray wash outer line; framing lines ruled in pen and gray-brown ink, possibly by the artist himself

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1963