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MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1670-72
Oil on canvas
122 × 127 cm
London, United Kingdom

Soft light models the artist's face in three-quarter view, his gaze direct and penetrating. Murillo captures himself as a respected master, establishing the Spanish Golden Age painter's intellectual authority and refined technique through intimate portraiture.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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