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Title
Girl Holding Child
Description
Plate with rounded corners. Contour lines and shading. Fig of a woman with child on his lap, both deliberate represented with significant deformation, inserted in a rectangle, whose upper cut edge of the head of the woman. She is standing, facing, in a static position and was flattened at its height. Has armed short hair, represented by shaded, sunken eyes, slightly flattened nose and lips closed. Wear long sleeve dress, square neckline, length to the height of the shins, seeing your feet up front, increased. On the right arm over the body and on the left holding the child, as if mounted on your on the left hip, with the head turned forward. The boy has not represented hair, the facial features are indicated by shaded and contoured body only.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
Engraving with same composition as painting Girl Holding Child [FCO 2968].
Themes
Art Form
Printing PlateArtFormType
Art Medium
lithographyArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
zincArtworkSurfaceType
Matrix Description
No prints from this engraving plate have been located.
Height
19.8
Width
16
Dimension Notes
29.6x33 (S)
Annotation
Initialed in bottom right corner "PC" [sic]. Undated
Annotation Others
Label removed from reverse of plate for restoration and placed on plastic encasing the plate "Mulher e Menino N 937”. The information on this label refers to cataloging prior to that of the Portinari Project as solicited by the artist’s widow.
