A Mother's Sadness
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (34 × 26.1 cm) Image: 8 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (21.5 × 17.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985
Accession Number
1985.1123.5
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Art Historical Context
### A Mother's Sadness Created in 1823 by French lith Hippolyte Bellangé, printing by Villain and Gaut Frères, *A Mother's Sadness* captures the emotional weight of military life in the post-Napoleonic. Bellangé, renowned his Romantic depictions of soldiers, often portrayed the human cost of war through poignant scenes of camaraderie, hardship, and farewell. This lithograph, 13 3/8 × 10 1/4 inches, evokes the sorrow of a mother bidding goodbye to her son, a soldier, amid the lingering echoes of France's turbulent wars. Lithography, a revolutionary printmaking technique pioneered just decades...
About the Artist
Hippolyte Bellangé|Villain|Gihaut Frères · 1800–1866
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