Murillo

Overview

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Spanish Baroque painter of Seville, famous for his Virgins and Immaculate Conceptions and for his street children (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_Esteban_Murillo).

Relevance to Marie

Stub replaced. Painter's dates from Wikipedia as cited. The place of the 1875 and 1881 viewings was not checked in the paragraphs' context.

References in Diary

Marie's taste cools over the years. In September 1875 in the museum at Florence a Murillo Virgin with the Child attracts her: «c'est frais, c'est naturel» (043.0169). In October 1881 she sees «une salle unique pleine de Murillo»: «Murillo ne me dit pas grand chose je l'avoue, ces Vierges aux joues roses et aux visages ronds» (093.0275). In October 1882 a visitor praises Murillo's «magie de sa peinture» but, she says, Velázquez is the one who painted most admirably (096.0381).