Nicolaes Maes - Mother and Child, 1860,0616.88 by Nicolaes Maes

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Brown wash drawing with red chalk of a mother bending over a swaddled infant she cradles in her arms.

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A woman in a red-brown garment bends her head toward an infant wrapped in striped cloth, cradled across her lap. The drawing is rendered in brown wash with touches of red chalk and a soft dark halo-like shading around the head.

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Date

1860

Medium

Print

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Wikimedia Commons

License

Public domain

Themes

Women, Children

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