Eater of a melon

Title

Eater of a melon

Draughtsman

• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Spanish

Production Reason

• figure study
• movement study
• design for a painting

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): Bartolomeo Murillo fec.

Captions Added Later

Verso Stempel der Sammlung Rudolf Philipp Goldschmidt, Berlin (Lugt 2926)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

• Mena Marqués 2015.298.53

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• genre
• animal depiction

Primary

• 31D12(+56) youth, young man, adolescent (+ lying)
• 31A2364 lying on one side, with uplifted upper part of the body and leaning on the arm
• 41C11 eating
• 25G21(MELON) fruits: melon
• 34B11 dog