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Painting of an older woman in a white headcloth teaching a young girl with long hair to read from an open book.

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Santa Ana enseñando a leer a la Virgen, Francisco Herrera the Younger (1650), Museo del Prado. Via artnap.com

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An older woman in a white headcloth and dark mantle leans over a open book held before a young girl with long auburn hair, who wears a red-brown garment and a light shawl. The pair are framed by a dark oval with a soft glow behind them, and the work is catalogued as Santa Ana enseñando a leer a la Virgen by Francisco Herrera the Younger, dated 1650, held by the Museo del Prado.

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