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Description: | This painting is a sad depiction of a widowed mother watching over her sleeping child. She is wearing traditional Victorian mourning costume. Women at the time were required to wear full mourning costume for at least a year after their husband's death. Perrault's idealised portrayal of the sleeping child conveys a sense of serene beauty and innocence. This was a fashionable way to present children in the Victorian age. The innocence of the child adds to the sense of loss and sadness conveyed by the painting.
Oil painting showing a widowed mother in full black mourning costume sitting next to her sleeping infant child. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Death Portrait painting Fine arts Childhood Mothers Women Oil painting Oil Paintings Babies Highlights Adults Children Victorian period Interiors Sorrow Sleep Paintings Narrative painting Parents People Single mothers Love Bereavement |
Temporal: | 1874
Victorian (1837-1901) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | PERRAULT; Leon Jean Bazile (1832 - 1908) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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