In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Maurice Denis sought to revive religious art by depicting everyday modern life with a sense of spirituality. This painting of a mother and child—a frequent subject for Denis—places the traditional icon of the Virgin Mary in the setting of a 19th-century French home. The young mother's simple black gown recalls the quintessential 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.
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Amedeo Modigliani — The Pretty Housewife (La Jolie ménagère)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Vincent van Gogh — Madame Augustine Roulin with Baby
Camille Corot — Mother and Child
Paul Cézanne
Edgar Degas — Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Motherhood
Vincent van Gogh — Peasant Woman with Child on Her Lap
Mary Cassatt — Woman and Child
Max Pechstein (German, 1881–1955) — Mother and Child (recto)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Maternity
Pablo Picasso — Standing Nude in Front of a Red Arch
