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"tombstone": "Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, c. 1670\u201372. Bartolom\u00e9 Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617\u20131682). 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",
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"title": "Bartolom\u00e9 Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682",
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"title": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland",
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"title": "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "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).",
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"did_you_know": "The inscription Morillo on this drawing is not the artist's signature but rather a notation likely made by a 17th-century owner of the drawing.",
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"description": "One of the finest of the rare drawings by Murillo, this sheet is a study for Virgin and Child, commissioned for the family chapel of the Marques de Santiago in Madrid and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Prized today for their dynamism, Murillo\u2019s drawings served the practical purpose of working out the positions of the figures. Here, the artist suggested the tender bond between mother and child with the poignant connection of their gazes. His animated line and zigzag hatching create the feeling of incessant motion while the addition of ink wash creates deep shadows across the forms.",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April-June, 1968,\" Art Quarterly XXXI (Winter 1968).",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 130",
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"citation": "McKim-Smith, Gridley. Spanish Baroque Drawings in North American Collections: [Exhibition] October 19-November 24, 1974. [Lawrence?]: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"citation": "Angulo In\u0303iguez, Diego, \"Algunos dibujos de Murillo,\" Instituto Diego Vel\u00e1zquez Archivo Espa\u00f1ol de Arte XLVII: 186 (Apr-Jun 1974): pp. 97-108.",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "Nun\u0303o, Juan Antonio. L'opera completa di Murillo. Milano: Rizzoli, 1978.",
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"citation": "Angulo In\u0303iguez, Diego. Murillo. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981, Vol. II.",
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"citation": "Museo del Prado, and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Bartolome\u0301 Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1982.",
"page_number": "p. 61; cat. D19, p. 217",
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"citation": "Richards, Louise S. \"A Tribute to Leona Prasse,\" Drawing VII:1 (May-June 1985): 8-9.",
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"citation": "Marqu\u00e9s, Manuela Mena in Turner, J. S. The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996: Vol. 22.",
"page_number": "p. 347",
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"citation": "Brown, Jonathan. Painting in Spain: 1500-1700. 1998.",
"page_number": "p. 231",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L. Bartolome\u0301 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",
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"citation": "Ressort, Claudie, \"Murillo dessiateur. Un style \u00e9l\u00e9gant et libre,\" Dossier de l'art 115 (2005): pp. 56-64.",
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"citation": "Brown, Jonathan. Murillo: Virtuoso Draftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.",
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"citation": "Brown, Jonathan, \"Circle of Love,\" ARTnews 111:10 (Nov. 2012): pp. 90-91.",
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"citation": "Marques, Manuela Mena. Bartolome\u0301 Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): dibujos : cata\u0301logo razonado. Santander: Fundaci\u00f3n Bot\u00edn, 2015.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 180, 394-397, 416; Reproduced: p. 59, 395",
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"citation": "Pareja Lo\u0301pez, Enrique. Murillo Fecit. Sevilla: Ediciones Tartessos, 2016.",
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"citation": "Navarrete Prieto, Benito. Murillo y las meta\u0301foras de la imagen. Madrid: Ediciones Catedra, 2017.",
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