Artist: Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Date: 1650
Size: 107 x 77 cm
Museum: The Frick Collection (New York, United States)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Painted when he was in his mid-thirties, Murillo’s first self-portrait shows him as an upper-class Spaniard, sporting an elegant black outfit with a golilla (a stiff white collar, typical of Spanish fashion). It was probably a private work, painted for his own family. The image of the artist is set in a fictive stone block, chipped and battered by time, that rests on a stone ledge in a realistic manner. The Latin inscription at the bottom of the canvas, describing Murillo as a famous painter and providing biographical information—including the wrong birthdate of 1618—was added to the painting after his death.
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