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Title
Preparing Burial in Hammock
Description
Composition in black and gray. Contour lines and shading. It depicts three men preparing burial in the network and wife with two girls crying. In the foreground on the left body on the ground on the left diagonal to on the right, front to the back, being wrapped by two men, a kind of cloth. A little further back, another front man walking holding hands in a long wooden beam almost vertically. Further to the left, ox lying on the diagonal on the right to on the left, front to the back. On the right, a woman standing with her back, with long dark hair, wearing kind of straight and barefoot robe, with arms folded over his face. To his on the right, girl in profile to the left with on the left arm around the woman's waist. More to the left, a girl also back, with long hair and wearing long gown, with arms stretched upward. On the right, a little more in front of the woman, a hoe.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event6
Related Document7
Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the painting Preparing Burial in Hammock [FCO 3748]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
crayonArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to yellow Bristol board.
Certificate
951
Previous Collection
Height
34
Width
48.5
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Others
On back of frame, label "Preparando enterro na rede nº 11”; inscription "BR 524”.
