Boy with a Dog is a 1655-1660 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, for which it was acquired from the Comte de Choiseul collection in 1772.[1]
The painting represents a ragged, mischievous and cheerful boy, playing with a dog, and which is the thematic model of many paintings by Murillo, children victims of the hardship that in the mid-seventeenth century affected a Seville drowned by the taxes and the competition of Cádiz, after the plague of 1649.[2]
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- ^ Asís Roig, Rafael F. de (2020-12-18). "VI Congreso El tiempo de los derechos Sevilla, 4 y 5 de noviembre de 2019". Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho (36): 560–561. doi:10.53054/afd.vi36.2399. hdl:10016/36136. ISSN 2659-8973. S2CID 247347013.
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