Title
Mother and Children, c1850. Creator: Theophile Emmanuel Duverger.
Caption
Mother and Children, c1850. It is twilight and in this dimly lighted cottage interior, a mother kneels against a chair with her hands clasped in prayer. Seated at her side is a young child holding a pot. In the doorway, an older daughter appears anxiously to be awaiting her father's return, imparting a tension to the scene. Both the mother and daughter wear typical village dress: a cap, a "casaque" (or loose jacket), and wool stockings. White has been used to heighten the mother's headgear and tunic and to indicate the waning light in the sky. Elsewhere, the artist has adopted a tonalist rather than linear approach, working with charcoal and exploiting the texture of the paper.
Date
Jan 01, 0001
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM23B22_186
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
47,6Mb (5,1Mb) / 16,5in x 11,2in / 4960 x 3351 (300dpi)