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image of Two Women at a Window
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish, 1617 - 1682
Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660
oil on canvas, 125.1 x 104.5 cm (49 1/4 x 41 1/8 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.46
From the Tour: Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Object 6 of 7


Literature

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  • Widener 1885, 2:229, repro.
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  • Widener 1916, unpaginated, repro., as A Girl and Her Duenna.
  • Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923 (unpaginated) unpaginated, repro.
  • Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 34, repro.
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  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 95, as A Girl and Her Duenna.
  • Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:210, color repro., as A Girl and Her Duenna.
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  • Angulo Iñiguez, Diego. "Quelques tableaux de Murillo. Les femmes à la fenêtre ..., de la Galerie Nationale ...." In Evolution générale et dévelop. régionaux en histoire de l'art. 3 vols. Budapest, 1972: 2:781-784, pl. 533: 1.
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  • Gaya Nuño, Juan A. L'opera completa di Murillo. Milan, 1978: 103-104, color repro. front cover.
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