# Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, in 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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