# Boy with a Dog

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm

## Commentary

The young Murillo first made his name with small genre scenes from the life of simple urban folk and homeless children, painted at a time when a plague was raging in his native Seville. His works are always full of a natural realism, free of ideological content. By the end of the 1640s, after he had traveled to Madrid and become acquainted with the painting of Velázquez and Venetian artists, his use of chiaroscuro grew finer and his compositions acquired a more stylised and sentimental character.

## Related artworks

- [A Girl and her Duenna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/a-girl-and-her-duenna-rff353a2ba492ce>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/adoration-of-the-magi-rbe2fe43ce67d5d>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/adoration-of-the-shepherds-r0623c524af7f27>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/adoration-of-the-shepherds-r6cf307b739b457>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/adoration-of-the-shepherds-r960945371a37c6>)
- [Angels&#39; Kitchen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/angels-kitchen-rd258061d7db2f8>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/annunciation-ra03fec2b2c766b>)
- [Baking of Flat Cakes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/baking-of-flat-cakes-r0a594a2eee6d9e>)
- [Baptism of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/baptism-of-christ-rfb27415de25ff8>)
- [Birth of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/birth-of-the-virgin-rd277de51b2bcae>)
- [Boys Eating Grapes and Melon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/boys-eating-grapes-and-melon-raed6221c15fadd>)
- [Christ the Good Shepherd](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/murillo-bartolom-esteban-r2090ffefe35947/christ-the-good-shepherd-r6f83597d6f658b>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)