Bartolomé Estéban Murillo

Murillo, Bartolomé Estéban

spanischer Maler des Barocks und ab der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts der führende und berühmteste Maler Sevillas (1618-1682). Autograph document signed Ohne Ort. Quer-gr.-8vo. Am linken Rand montiert.
$ 51,149 / 48.000 € (83320)

Receipt for 80 Reales ("ochenta Reales"), which he received from Don Juan Antonio de la Torre as a two-year rent for some houses in Pilas. The houses were part of the dowry of Murillo's wife, Doña Beatriz de Cabrera y Sotomayor. "I received from Mr. Don Juan Antonio de la Torre eighty reales de bellón for the rent of two years of a tribute that Your Grace pays for some houses he has in the town of Pilas that belong to some chaplaincies that I administer, and it is from the rent of the years seventy-two and seventy-three, and in truth, he signed it for me.

[...]" From 1671 to 1674, eleven large paintings were created for the church of the Charity Brotherhood, into which he was admitted in 1665. From the collection of Thomas F. Madigan. A comparable piece from the Ammann collection already achieved a result of 1650 DM in 1962. This piece was auctioned for 40,000 DM in the year 2000. Of the utmost rarity..

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