Peasant Woman and Child
Sculptor: Hardy, Bernhard Caspar
Three-quarter length figure of a peasant woman nursing a baby - Peasant woman and child. Wax, coloured flesh pink, red, pale greyish-green, dark greyish-green and pale brown. A woman is seated on a red cushion, holding a baby in her arms as if to suckle it, and leaning over it slightly, with her head in profile. She wears a pale greyish-green headscarf and a low-necked dark greyish-green dress with widely spaced white stripes. Her chemise shows at the neck and below the sleeve ends. The model rests on a D-shaped base covered in dark green ribbed silk and the background is buff ribbed silk. In gilt-metal rococo scrolled frame with three scroll feet, glass half dome, and hinged door at the back.
A pair with M.7-1996.
History note: Sotheby's, 31st July 1958, lot 135
Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1996) by Pyke, Edward Joseph
18th Century, Late
Circa
1775
CE
-
1800
CE
Figure
composed of
wax
( coloured)
Frame
composed of
gilt-metal
glass
Height 26.7 cm
Width 20.2 cm
Inscription present: extract from a sale catalogue
Accession number: M.8-1996
Primary reference Number: 30478
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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