Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 278
he Virgin with the Child Jesus, who leans forward, almost out ofthe picture, as if to welcome any one who approaches it. It hasa brilliant color, and so affects one that it is not easy to turn awayfrom it. During the later years of his life Murillo painted many other impor-tant works, most of them… … MURILLO. (FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED BY HIMSELF.) STOEIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. 261 Six years before his death Murillo saw his only daughter, Fran-cesca, bid farewell to the world, and enter a convent. It is saidthat he had represented her face more than once in the pictures ofthe Madonna. His son…
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