The Infant St. John the Baptist
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
Artist bio: Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Spanish
Date: 1618–82
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing.  Composition outlined with black chalk inner line and brush and gray wash outer line; framing lines ruled in pen and gray-brown ink, possibly by the artist himself
Dimensions: 4-3/8 x 5-5/8 in.  (11.1 x 14.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1963
Accession year: 1963
Tags: Infants|Saint John the Baptist