“It wasn’t that It had been seen”. An example of ingenuity in Murillo

Abstract

In the present article let’s sense beforehand Jan Baptist de Wael’s engraving that it must be put in relation with the work of Murillo “Four Figures on a Step”, belonging to the Kimbell Art Gallery. We enter also in some form the process of creation of the image, of the history narrated in the masterpiece, according to the mind of the sevillian artist.