# Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, in 17th-century Spain

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo drew this in about 1670–72, aged about 48. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 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: 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.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.66
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/bartolome-esteban-murillo), Spanish, 1617–1682

Murillo spent nearly all his life in Seville, where he became the city’s leading painter after Zurbarán.

3 works in the collection.

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