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The Good Shepherd Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1664
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The Good Shepherd

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1664

Why it's great

A young boy with long hair holds a lamb and a staff, looking out of a green landscape. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted it in about 1664, and the Good Shepherd is Christ as a child.

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📍 Castellar del VallèsVallès Occidental, Spain

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About the artist

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

1617–1682 · born in Seville

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish painter born in Seville in 1617. He painted soft, warm pictures of Mary and the saints and also lovely scenes of poor children in the street. He died in Seville in 1682.

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