Artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | ||
Similar Flight into Egypt, Sagrada Familia del pajarito, Children Eating a Pie, The Holy Family with the Infant, Three Boys | ||
Inmaculada Concepción is a painting made by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the year 1670. It belongs to the collection of Museo Soumaya.Fundacion Carlos Slim. The technique is oil on canvas, and it´s dimensions are 168 x 112 cm.
The painting was registered as an original Murillo in the catalogue of Diego Angulo Íñiguez, Spanish art historian, which was published in 1979. It belonged to the French marshal Horace-Francois-Bastien Sebastiani de la Porta, one of the officers who participated in the Napoleonic invasion to Spain in 1807. The picture travelled with him to Paris and remained in that city until Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun purchased it by recommendation of his wife, the painter of Marie Antoinette, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée Him Brun, he suggested to her husband, to give it back to Spain.