Birth of the Virgin

The Birth of the Virgin is a 1660 painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. He painted it for the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Seville Cathedral, from which it and the same artist's Immaculate Conception were looted by French troops under marshal Jean de Dieu Soult. The French had hoped to confiscate The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua, but the city council proposed to exchange that work for Birth and it was thus removed from the chapel. It is now in the Louvre in Paris.

Collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre