Madonna Nursing the Christ Child
c. 1670–72
- Medium
- 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
- Dimensions
- 21.4 × 15.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190707
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’s 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 …
Provenance
Prasse Collection, 1968.66
Registry history
- c. 1670–72 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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