Jean-Claude Golvin

Mother and child

Type

Drawing

Equipment used

Black ink, Gouache (highlights), Graphite (traces), Paper, Watercolor

Dimensions

38.8 x 42.9 cm (Overall) 19.7 x 12 cm (Drawing)

Period

antiquity

Geographical area

Location or theme

Scene of life

Miscellaneous

Presentation :

Frontal view of a mother and child. The drawing is in portrait format. It is framed in ink. Inscriptions and traces of watercolor are visible in the margins.
Seated at the window of a domus, a mother is breastfeeding her child on her lap.
Dishes filled with victuals lie at her feet.
The drawing was inspired by the Casa della Farnesina fresco of a nymph suckling Dionysus.

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