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Title
Mother with Dead Boy
Description
Composition in black and white. Straight and wavy lines, intersecting lines represented by shaded. It depicts woman with the dead child in her lap, dead man and figures with arms raised. Geometrized composition in perspective, with suggested superimposed planes. In the foreground, on the left, dead man lying on the ground with his head to the bottom and feet forward, figure lying on his chest. On the right woman sitting forward with his head back, on the right arm raised and lowered on the left arm, holding dead boy lying on his lap, his head to the left of the composition and fallen legs to the right. In the background, several figures lying in different positions, with arms raised standing out on the right, kneeling figure on his back with dead child lying in her lap, her head to the right. At the bottom, the width straight lines cut by the composition of the top margin.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the engraving Mother with Dead Boy [FCO 850 and FCO 3981].
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
1698
Height
30
Width
19.5
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 60"
