id: 144216 accession number: 1968.66 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.66 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:22.185000 Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, c. 1670–72. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red and black chalk, with traces of white; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 21.4 x 15.4 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/16 in.); secondary support: 24.1 x 18.5 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1968.66 title: Madonna Nursing the Christ Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1670–72 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1677 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection copyright: --- culture: Spain, 17th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red and black chalk, with traces of white; framing lines in pen and brown ink department: Drawings collection: DR - Spanish type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Brown 2012.75 --- CREATORS * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 21.4 x 15.4 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 24.1 x 18.5 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: in brown ink, upper right: Morillo translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). title: Spanish Baroque Drawings in North American Collections opening date: 1974-10-19T04:00:00 Spanish Baroque Drawings in North American Collections. Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1974). title: Old Master Drawings from American Collections opening date: 1976-04-29T04:00:00 Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (April 29-June 13, 1976). title: Murillo and His Drawings opening date: 1976-12-12T05:00:00 Murillo and His Drawings. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (December 12, 1976-January 30, 1977). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682 opening date: 1982-10-08T04:00:00 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (October 8-December 12, 1982); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 15-March 27, 1983). title: Murillo opening date: 1983-01-15T05:00:00 Murillo. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (January 15-March 27, 1983); Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain (October 8-December 12, 1983). title: Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator opening date: 1985-05-28T04:00:00 Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-August 25, 1985). title: Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE with Jacques de Mons, Paris (?) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: with Frederick Mont, Inc., New York date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Leona Prasse, Cleveland date: ?-1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1968- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Brown, Jonathan. Murillo & His Drawings. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976. page number: p. 31, 162, 164, cat. 79, p. 165-66, p. 168 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April-June, 1968," Art Quarterly XXXI (Winter 1968). page number: pp. 446, 449 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 130 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n154 McKim-Smith, Gridley. Spanish Baroque Drawings in North American Collections: [Exhibition] October 19-November 24, 1974. [Lawrence?]: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1974. page number: cat. 26, p. 49-50; reproduced on cover url: Angulo Iñiguez, Diego, "Algunos dibujos de Murillo," Instituto Diego Velázquez Archivo Español de Arte XLVII: 186 (Apr-Jun 1974): pp. 97-108. page number: p. 105 url: Feinblatt, Ebria. Old Master Drawings from American Collections: Exhibition, April 29-June 13, 1976, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. page number: p. 207, cat. 226, p. 212 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 150 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n170 Nuño, Juan Antonio. L'opera completa di Murillo. Milano: Rizzoli, 1978. page number: p. 105, under cat. 217 url: Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: p. 45, 47-48 url: Angulo Iñiguez, Diego. Murillo. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981, Vol. II. page number: II, p. 160 under cat. 164 url: Museo del Prado, and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1982. page number: p. 61; cat. D19, p. 217 url: Richards, Louise S. "A Tribute to Leona Prasse," Drawing VII:1 (May-June 1985): 8-9. page number: pp. 8-9 url: Marqués, Manuela Mena in Turner, J. S. The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996: Vol. 22. page number: p. 347 url: Brown, Jonathan. Painting in Spain: 1500-1700. 1998. page number: p. 231 url: DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 9, pp. 82-83, p. 287; Reproduced: p. 83 url: Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections. New York: H.N. Abrams, in association with the Kimbell Art Museum, 2002. page number: p. 164, fig. 2 url: Ressort, Claudie, "Murillo dessiateur. Un style élégant et libre," Dossier de l'art 115 (2005): pp. 56-64. page number: p. 64 url: Brown, Jonathan. Murillo: Virtuoso Draftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. page number: cat. 75, pp. 194-195 url: Brown, Jonathan, "Circle of Love," ARTnews 111:10 (Nov. 2012): pp. 90-91. page number: pp. 90-91 url: Marques, Manuela Mena. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): dibujos : catálogo razonado. Santander: Fundación Botín, 2015. page number: Mentioned: p. 180, 394-397, 416; Reproduced: p. 59, 395 url: Pareja López, Enrique. Murillo Fecit. Sevilla: Ediciones Tartessos, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 379, 389 url: Navarrete Prieto, Benito. Murillo y las metáforas de la imagen. Madrid: Ediciones Catedra, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 141; Reproduced: p. 141, no. 90 url: Navarrete Prieto, Benito, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Benito Navarrete Prieto, Jenny Dodman, and Véronique Gerard Powell. Murillo: Persuasion and Aura. 2021, 125. page number: Mentioned: p. 121; Reproduced: p. 125, fig. 58. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.66/1968.66_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.66/1968.66_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.66/1968.66_full.tif