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  4. Head of the Madonna

unknown after Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

unknown: nationality and dates unknown

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo: Spanish, 1618-1682

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Head of the Madonna, not dated

Artwork Details

Materials

oil on canvas

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. Millard Fillmore, Buffalo, 1881

Accession ID

1881:1.66

Object Classifications:

Paintings

Work Type:

Oil painting

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Other Works by This Artist

  • Holy Family, 1904

    Timothy Cole after Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

    Holy Family
  • Saint Joseph and Child, 1903

    Timothy Cole after Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

    Saint Joseph and Child

Collection Highlights

All Collection Highlights
  • Gap from the series Tiny Town, 2001

    James Turrell

    Gap from the series Tiny Town
  • L'Objet invisible (Mains tenant le vide) [Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void)], 1934 (cast executed 1935)

    Alberto Giacometti

    A life-sized bronze abstract female nude holds her hands placed in front of her chest, as if cradling an invisible sphere. She appears to be perched on a tall chair, which supports and frames the figure from behind. The facial features on her flat, round head are angular. Her long, skinny body terminates in long legs bent at the knee. The figure’s feet rest on a narrow rectangular shaped stool at the sculpture’s base.
  • Le Peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter), 1903

    Edouard Vuillard

    Sunlight streams into a living room from open floor to ceiling windows on the left-hand side of this painting. A man sits with his back to the window, facing a child who stands slightly to the right of the image’s center on the room’s red-and-white striped carpet. A table with a decorative urn, a patterned curtain behind the child, and the rest of the room’s furnishings are also largely in shades of white and red with blue accents. The entire scene is painted in rough, loose brushstrokes.
  • Round Trip, 1957

    Helen Frankenthaler

    Round Trip
  • Figure triste (Sad Figure), 1912

    Francis Picabia

    Figure triste (Sad Figure)
  • untitled (to Donna) 6, 1971

    Dan Flavin

    A square of fluorescent tube lights mounted in white aluminum fixtures sits on the floor in front of a corner of the gallery space. The lights that make up the top and the bottom of the frame shine bright blue light outward. The lights that make up the right and left of the frame cast yellow and pink light into the corner behind the sculpture.
  • Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin), 1924-1925

    Joan Miró

    This painting features a beige-color room full of fantastical creatures performing music and acrobatics, and floating through the air. These colorful beings are shaped like musical instruments, insects, animals, and mermaids and interact with instruments, musical notes, a ladder, dice, unicycle, a shooting star, and other objects. A window at top right looks out onto a landscape, and beneath it is a table with a fish, a globe, and papers.
  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV, 1953-1954

    Robert Motherwell

    Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV
  • Saw and Sawed, 1969

    Neil Jenney

    A chainsaw with a long, gray rounded blade and yellow motor marked with the letter M just above its handle rests in a field of dark green brushstrokes evocative of thick grass between a section of newly cut tree trunk is lying on its side on the left and a short, brown tree stump on the right. A black border runs around the image, and the words SAW AND SAWED appear in white capital letters at bottom center.

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