The Holy Children with a Shell is a painting by the Spanish baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo made in 1670 and created with the technique of oil on canvas. It has the measurements of 104 by 124 cm, it is situated in The Prado Museum in Madrid and it is one of the most recognizable works of the painter.

This work represents infant Jesus giving his cousin John the Baptist a drink in a shell, in the Jordan River, introducing a prefiguration of the Baptism and portraying a religious work and the evangelical childhood stories of that time.

The figures are accompanied by symbols that identify their divine nature.

This work combines the elements of children's painting and the baroque style. These holy children have a specific idealized beauty and their gestures and expressions possess a great naturalness. The contrasts of light and shadow are surprising and give a kind of haze to the scene, a haze known as the "vaporous effect”. The combination of realism and spirituality is also represented in this painting, all of these are baroque style characteristics.