Auto-da-fé in a Courtyard

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Artist: Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo (Spanish, Madrid 1619–1671 Madrid)
Date: 1619–71
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk underdrawing. Framing lines in pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash
Dimensions: 6-5/16 x 7-1/4 in. (16.0 x 18.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession no.: 1975.131.205

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Drawing for the title page to the 'Descrpción de las honras' (related to the death of Philip IV)
Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo
1666 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018990
Female Personification of Summer or Abundance
Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo
1619–71 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018991

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.