The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell

The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell or The Holy Children with a Shell (Spanish - Los Niños de la concha) is a 1670-1675 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

One of the artist's most popular works, it was widely reproduced in prints and on plates.^[1] It first appeared in the written record in 1746, when it was recorded in Elisabeth Farnese's collection in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia, moving to infante Luis's bedroom in the same palace by 1766. It was next recorded in the kings' bedroom in the Palacio de Aranjuez in Madrid in 1794, then the Palacio Real in Madrid from 1814 to 1818.^[2]

References[]

^ (in Spanish) Romano, E., ed. (2005). Murillo. Los Grandes Genios del Arte, Tomo 12. Madrid, España: Unidad Editorial. p. 192. ISBN 84-89780-63-3.
^ (in Spanish) Catalogue entry

v t Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Immaculate Conceptions	San Vincente (c. 1640–1650) La Colasal (1645–1655) Esquilache (1645–1655) El Escorial (1660–1665) Museo Soumaya (c. 1670) Aranjuez (c.1675) Los Venerables (c. 1678) Walpole (c. 1680)
Other religious works	Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1640–1645) The Flight into Egypt (1647–1650) The Holy Family with a Little Bird (1650) Our Lady of the Rosary (1650–1655) Rebecca and Eleazar (1652) The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua (1656) The Good Shepherd (c. 1660) Christ on the Cross (c. 1660–1670) The Birth of the Virgin (1661) The Patrician's Dream (1665) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1665) Liberation of Peter (1665–1667) Isaac Blessing Jacob (1665–1670) Saint Justa and Saint Rufina (c. 1666) Madonna and Child of the Napkin (c. 1666) Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross (1668–1669) The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell (1670–1675) Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick (1672) Christ on the Cross (c. 1675, Metropolitan Museum of Art) Christ on the Cross (c. 1675, Prado) Christ on the Cross (c. 1677, Prado) The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims (1678) The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities (c.1680)
Genre works	The Young Beggar (1645–1650) Children Eating Grapes and a Melon (1645–1650) Boy with a Dog (1655–1660) Two Women at a Window (1665–1675) Children Eating a Tart (1670–1675) The Flower Girl (c.1675-1680)
Portraits	Portrait of Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga (c. 1653)
Museums	Casa de Murillo

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