Oil painting on canvas with some measures 67x72 cm, by the great Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the year 1666. 
is a very popular piece of the Virgin and Child, made by the author to the Capuchin Convent in Seville, but today we can enjoy this precious work in the Museum of Fine Arts Seville. The beauty of this picture, is the delicious composition gives Murillo to move the piety and religion to the everyday, by showing the Virgin holding the child as any mother fucks her arms to her son. It also stresses the childlike curiosity Child facing the viewer and seems to want to get out of the box. The picture conveys a lot of tenderness, a typical feature of the author in his work.
The author presents the actors against a neutral background that is influenced by Baroque paintings, the figures are not defined, but fade with the outline.
As a curiosity to tell the story of reason for the name of Our Lady of the napkin that comes from a tradition of the nineteenth century that Murillo painted on a napkin the popular image for the lay brother in charge of the refectory of the convent as lay brother asked for a recall and Murillo did not have the time canvas.
This entry is dedicated to my good friend Noah, I hope you like, a big kiss beautiful.
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