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Friday, April 26
On its way home to the Museum del Prado in Madrid from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Diego Rodriguez Velazquez painting of the ancient Greek author Aesop, will make a brief stop at the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting will be on display through September 26, 2003.