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Francisco De Zurbaran
(Spanish, 1598 — 1664)
The Girlhood of the Virgin (1660)
Inventory Number: 306
Oil on canvas.
20.5 x 28.5 inches (52 x 72.5 cm)
Religious painter, born in Fuente de Cantos, Spain. He spent most of his life at Seville, where his best-known work, an altarpiece, is to be found. Apart from a few portraits and still-life studies, his main subjects were monastic and historical, and he came to be called "the Spanish Caravaggio".
Size can be commissioned smaller or larger.
Collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.