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The pastel colors of this month’s pick, The Music Lesson, by Luis Jimenez y Aranda, call to mind spring flowers, which is why we've selected it as our May Curator's pick. This painting is one of three pieces by Luis Jimenez y Aranda in The Drexel Collection. Aranda was a Spanish artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungria in Seville and eventually settling in France near Paris. While we are unsure of the donor of this painting, Anthony J. Drexel, the founder of Drexel University, purchased a number of paintings by Spanish artists, including Aranda, for his home in Philadelphia.