American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 68
My poor girl, replied the lady, youare greatly mistaken. I am not the blessedMadonna for whom you evidently take me. Iam only a maiden like yourself. My name isMaria Geronima Montezuma. These are myparents apartments, in which my father hasfitted up a studio so that this good gentle-man can paint… … K Toccata. Drawn by Champney. is why you see me dressed in this way; and ifit had been the picture and not I which deceivedyou, I could not have wondered, for every onesays that Sefior Bartolome Estevan Murillo paintsthe Madonna as though he had seen her in aheavenly vision. One of Fortunys models…
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