Maurice Denis: Mother and Child, Maurice Denis, c. 1895, Oil on canvas, Maurice Denis saw himself as the leader of a movement to revive religious art by investing everyday modern life with a sense of spirituality. This painting of a mother and child—a subject to which Denis returned repeatedly —places the traditional Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in the setting of a nineteenth-century French home. As the young mother gazes down tenderly at her child, the blue-eyed infant grasps playfully at her collar and hands; her simple black gown recalls the quintessential urban costume of the Parisian woman. Additionally, her delicately rendered features resemble those of Marthe, Denis's wife, highlighting the artist's desire to find divinity in his immediate surroundings., Overall: 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
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