A Young Man with a Basket of Fruit

A Young Man with a Basket of Fruit

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A Young Man with a Basket of Fruit

Bartolom� Esteban Murillo

Art Funded: 1999
Dimensions: 102 x 82 cm
Vendor: Estate of the 5th Earl of Normanton

Three quarter length depiction of a youth holding a basket of fruit.

His right arm and part of his chest are bare and ears of barley protrude from his turban.

Provenance

[Possibly Justino de Neve, Seville; Nicolas Omazur, Seville]; Manuel Godoy, 'Prince of Peace'; Marquis de Montcalm; his sale C, 4/5/1849 (144), bought by the 2nd Earl of Normanton thence by descent

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