Some provenances in art books on Murillo have this image catalogued as The Assumption, and others, the Walpole Immaculate Conception. It is difficult to believe that experts on Murillo could differ. When The Assumption title is assigned to this image, the dates are earlier than 1680. So I am led to believe that perhaps the artist painted two images so similar that any difference is not detected by the human eye of the average viewer, such as myself. In the Encyclical directory this image is titled The Assumption and here we title it as you see above. We have both versions but after scanning at a high resolution I cannot distinguish one from the other, other than the amount of ochre pigment, and this is so slight as to render any difference as unremarkable.
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