# Virgin and Child

**Bartolomé Esteban Murillo** (Spanish, 1617–1682)  
1670s  
Oil on canvas  
65 1/4 x 43 in. (165.7 x 109.2 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 43.13. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437175).

## About this work

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted this in the 1670s, aged about 53. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Bartolomé Esteban Murillo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/bartolome-esteban-murillo)

Spanish, 1617–1682; born in Seville; died in Seville

Murillo spent nearly all his life in Seville, where he became the city’s leading painter after Zurbarán. His tender religious scenes, especially his many Immaculate Conceptions, and his warm, softly lit pictures of street children made him one of the most popular Spanish painters in Europe in later centuries. In 1660 he helped found an academy of drawing in Seville. He died after a fall from scaffolding while painting an altarpiece in Cádiz.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Paintings
- The artist was about 53
- Real size: about 65 × 43 in (166 × 109 cm). The original is larger than our largest print, 20 × 30 in, so every print is a reduction.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: Madonna and Child
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1132.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/1132/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68; 20 × 30 in $86
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/virgin-and-child-met-437175).