Four Figures on a Step
Four Figures on a Step is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, created c. 1655–1660, now held in the Kimbell Art Museum, which bought it from the heirs of Charles Russell Feldman in 1984.[1] Possibly showing a bawd, it is rare in the artist's oeuvre and largely unprecedented in contemporary Spanish art.
Provenance
[edit]Its first recorded owner was Charles Berners Plestow of Watlington Hall in Norfolk, who owned it before 1830. It was then bought from Richard Abraham in London by Sir Charles Coote, 9th Baronet for £126, passing through the Coote family until being sold by the 13th baronet in 1923, arriving in the United States two years later.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Four Figures on a Step | Kimbell Art Museum".
- ^ "Four Figures on a Step - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo". Google Arts & Culture.
- ^ "Masterwork on Loan - Four Figures on a Loan". Cleveland Museum of Art. 22 April 2016.
- ^ "Four Figures on a Step". Artble.
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