Sujet

Motherhood - Sketch for fresco panel, c1844. Creator: William Dyce.

Légende

Motherhood - Sketch for fresco panel, c1844. The subject of the sketch is Charity, the foremost of the three theological virtues. Dyce recreates a traditional Gothic representation of Charity, where the figure of a woman performs six acts of mercy. The mother figure is surrounded by six infants, each representative of one of the six acts.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A04_485

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

17,2Mo (1,4Mo) / 33,9cm x 12,7cm / 4000 x 1500 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors portrait female women woman people childhood child children toddler group busy historical family panel sitting arts painting infant baby babies country panoramic parent art crawling romantic British museum color mother Scotland infancy motherhood location SCOTTISH century gallery Britain parenting need giving image chores generosity fresco charity suckling chore concept breastfeeding series seated romanticism handful breast feeding sketch art gallery mum family life daily Life everyday Life sketches oil Painting Colour allegory 19th century allegorical 1840s allegorical figure nineteenth century Scots history historic artistic school Pre-Raphaelite generous outside portrait oil young women young woman oil on panel William Dyce artistic style Dyce William Works of Mercy Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Romantic Era Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum art centre letterbox format Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums 1844 Heritage Art oil on panel 19th-century L'enfance Aberdeen Archives