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The Good Shepherd
c. 1660 · Óleo sobre lienzo (oil on canvas) · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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The Christ Child sits on a rock with bare feet and a staff across His knees, one hand resting on a lamb's back. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has made the Good Shepherd a child. Nerea Pérez López traces the older figure, a grown man whom the first Christian painters built out of Hermes Kriophoros and Orpheus; Murillo gave the type its childhood, and the Sevillian painters after him kept the shepherd a child. Ceán Bermúdez, she notes, saw the likeness of the pose to the frontispiece of Stefano della Bella's mythological engravings of 1644. Behind Him stand a broken column and a fallen piece of entablature, which the Prado reads as paganism conquered. His tunic is rose, the flock grazes far off, and He looks straight out, at the one sheep not yet brought in.
Sources: Museo Nacional del Prado, 'El Buen Pastor', P000962. · Nerea V. Pérez López, 'La iconografía del buen pastor niño...', Laboratorio de Arte 29 (2017), pp. 311-328 · Nerea V. Pérez López, 'La iconografía del Buen Pastor niño y su vinculación con la pintura sevillana', Laboratorio de Arte 29 (2017).
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.
John 10:11 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)