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Théodore Chassériau

Fisherman's Wife from Mola di Gaeta Embracing her Child

Maker

Théodore Chassériau (French, 1819-1856)

Title

Fisherman's Wife from Mola di Gaeta Embracing her Child

Year

ca. 1849-1851

Medium

  • Oil on panel

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Oil on panel

Materials

oil paint

Supports

  • panel

Dimensions

17.3 x 12.1 cm (6 13/16 x 4 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Signed LR:Th. Chassériau

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

28.004

Type

  • Paintings

Provenance

By 1893- Mme. Astoin; By 1911- Baron Arthur Chassériau; -1928, Martin Birnbaum; 1928, Purchased by Mrs. Gustav Radeke for the RISD Museum

Publications

  • Books

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

Exhibition History

Pilgrims of Beauty
Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy
Feb 03, 2012 – Jul 08, 2012

Label copy

Like many of his contemporaries the French painter Théodore Chassériau paid greater attention to Italy’s people than to its landscape and historical monuments. He based this painting on a drawing made while passing through the port town of Gaeta during his Italian tour in 1840 and 1841. Despite firsthand knowledge of local peasant costumes, Chassériau simplified the robes of the peasant mother to a classical and timeless form. The picture thereby becomes both a peasant genre scene and a universal image of motherly love, infused with beauty and spiritual purity through its visual correspondence to Italian Renaissance images of the Virgin and Child.

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937
Oct 18, 1991 – Jan 26, 1992

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Théodore Chassériau (French, 1819-1856)
Fisherman's Wife from Mola di Gaeta Embracing her Child, ca. 1849-1851
Oil on panel
17.3 x 12.1 cm (6 13/16 x 4 3/4 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 28.004

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