Mother grieving over her Dead Child (Q22245551)

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artist: Georges Minne (Q559281)
collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880) Vlaamse Kunstcollectie (VKC) (Q2542010)
location: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880)
material used: plaster (Q274988)
depicts: woman (Q467) child (Q7569) death (Q4) mourning (Q750652) grief (Q1026040) mother (Q7560)
instance of: sculpture (Q860861)
MSK Gent work PID: 1996-A

catalog URL: http://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1996-A

information from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) catalog

description: George Minne was barely twenty years old when he sculpted Mother Grieving over her Dead Child. This was the artist’s first mature work, and at the same time one of his most dramatic. The despairing woman, who holds the lifeless body of her son grasped against her thin body, almost primitively…

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