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Two Child Angels Contemplating the Crown of Thorns
Two Child Angels Contemplating the Crown of Thorns
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Two Child Angels Contemplating the Crown of Thorns

by Follower of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Date: 1680-1700

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Bourgeois Bequest, 1811

  • Accession number

    DPG275

  • Artist

    Follower of Bartolomé Estéban Murillo

  • Date

    1680-1700

  • Dimensions

    21 x 27.3 cm

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

Murillo's sensitive treatment of angels made him famous. His angels were often copied and adapted into separate compositions. In this instance, the artist has taken two angels from a Murillo original and shown them praying before a crown of thorns. Such an image would have been popular in Seville as a visual aid for the contemplation of Christ's suffering on the cross.

Two Child Angels Contemplating the Crown of Thorns

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