The Young Beggar

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

c. 1645–1650 · Oil on canvas · Musée du Louvre, Paris

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About this work

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682)
Year: c. 1645–1650
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 134 × 100 cm
Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Movement: Baroque

A barefoot boy in torn clothes sits on a mat in a shaft of sunlight picking lice from his shirt, a jug, a basket and the remains of a meal of shrimps and apples beside him on the floor. Murillo painted it in Seville around 1645 to 1650, his first known picture of a street child, in a city where plague and hardship had left many children to fend for themselves; he had been orphaned young himself. The strong light and shadow show how much the followers of Caravaggio had taught him. Louis XVI bought the canvas in 1782 through the dealer Lebrun, and it was shown at the opening of the Louvre museum in 1793. In the nineteenth century it was a favourite of copyists, with seventy-seven registered at the Louvre between 1851 and 1853 alone, and Cézanne, Fantin-Latour and Carpeaux all drew on it. It hangs in the Denon wing of the Louvre.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 12×18 and 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is The Young Beggar in the public domain?

Yes. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Musée du Louvre.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Young Beggar painted, and in what medium?

The Young Beggar dates from c. 1645–1650 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 134 × 100 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's The Young Beggar — The Young Beggar — a ragged boy picking fleas from his shirt in a shaft of sunlight, a jug and basket beside him — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Spanish Golden Age, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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