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Follower of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
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Description
- Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
- A young girl seated in a landscape, holding a basket of fruit and a plate of fish
- oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame
Provenance
Probably Vicomte Aguado, Marquis de Las Marismas, Paris, 1837 (3 pieds 1 pouce par 2 pieds 7 pouces = 99 by 84 cm);
Probably his deceased sale, Paris, Dubois, Wéry, C.P. Bonnefans, Benou, 20-28 March 1843, lot 48 (as “Murillo, Jeune fille aux poissons”; apparently engraved by Blanchard) for 6,900 francs;
Probably sold by Burley to Lord Cranstoun, in 1864 (see Art Journal, September 1864);
Probably still in the collection of Lady Cranstoun, in 1883 (101.5 by 81.5 cm., as 'the Aguado painting');
Private collection, The Hague, by 1951;
Thence by descent.
Probably his deceased sale, Paris, Dubois, Wéry, C.P. Bonnefans, Benou, 20-28 March 1843, lot 48 (as “Murillo, Jeune fille aux poissons”; apparently engraved by Blanchard) for 6,900 francs;
Probably sold by Burley to Lord Cranstoun, in 1864 (see Art Journal, September 1864);
Probably still in the collection of Lady Cranstoun, in 1883 (101.5 by 81.5 cm., as 'the Aguado painting');
Private collection, The Hague, by 1951;
Thence by descent.
Literature
Probably A.L. Mayer, Murillo. Des Meisters Gemälde, Berlin & Leipzig 1923, reproduced p. 275, apparently reproducing a print after the Galerie Aguado painting;
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 555, cat. no. 2.658, under 'obras discutibles', reproduced vol. III, fig. 630.
D. Angulo Iñiguez, Murillo, Madrid 1981, vol. II, p. 555, cat. no. 2.658, under 'obras discutibles', reproduced vol. III, fig. 630.
Catalogue Note
Angulo Iñiguez knew this painting only from old photographs and listed it, quite rightly, under 'obras discutibles'. He associated the painting with a possible companion piece (although of seemingly inferior quality) representing A Young Boy seated in a Landscape with Fruit, which he records as in the collection of Vicomte Aguado, Paris, in 1837. Both compositions were engraved, although whether the present work, as seems likely, provided the basis for the engraving and was therefore also in the Aguado Collection, is difficult to corroborate.