Madonna (nach Murillo),

1865

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

167,4 x 110 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 12

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11431

Acquisition

1865 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Franz von Lenbach, Madonna (nach Murillo), 1865, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/k2xnZmMxPd (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

Murillo was greatly admired in the nineteenth century for naturalistic depictions of ordinary people that were infused with poetic sensibility. Like many of his contemporaries, Schack viewed the Virgin and Child in the Galleria Corsini in terms of a genre painting: ‘The mother with her child is a young middle-class woman, with a trace of the gypsy about her, such as can be seen every day in the streets of Seville.’ Schack specifically requested Lenbach to copy this painting.