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Italian Mother and Child
Italian Mother and Child

Italian Mother and Child

Artist Thomas Hicks American, 1823–1890
Date1868
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions36 3/4 x 29 1/2 in. (93.3 x 74.9 cm)
Frame: 47 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (120.7 x 102.9 x 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of John W. Bailey
Object numberG.59.30.1
On View
Not on view
Provenance**Created United States, 1868; collection of the artist; donated to Artists’ Fund Society Annual Exhibition and Sale, New York, 1868; Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910); to daughter, Mary Kensett Whitredge; to nephew, William Katzenbach, New York; sold to John W. Bailey, Raleigh, NC, mid-1950s; given to NCMA, 1959.Published ReferencesAmerican Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 28, illus. (b-w).

Charles C. Eldredge, Jr., "Torre dei Schiavi: Monument and Metaphor,"Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1 (Fall 1987), 15-33, discussed 29, illus. (b-w) fig. 20.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, “Sacred Motherhood and the Ruins at the Villa Gordiani,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Fall 2014), discussed and illus. (color) 43.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Leavitt, Streibeigh & Co., Artists' Fund Society, "8th Annual Exhibition and Sale," 1868.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection,” May 4–December 7, 2014.
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