Madonna and child
o/c, 32.5 by 27 in.; late 17th c. carved gilt frame, 40.25 by 35 in.
The frame has old notes on reverse stating what previously resided in the frame:
The first in early ink script (the second a typed transcription): The Card Players Murillo/
This picture was the property of the Hon. Judge Panet who bought it off Mr. Manly Deputy Sheriff of Quebec. He inherited it from Mr. Foy his Majesties Commissioner of
the Jesuits property - It was originally sent to avoid the troubles in France
with some other pictures by Pussin, Rubens etc. by the Revd. Mesins Desjardines
Vicar General of the Jesuits at Paris to the Superintendent of the Jesuits College at Quebec
for safe keeping.