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- Added
- Jun 18, 2016
Firstborn
Ovcharenko Ilya- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 140 × 100 cm
- Year
- 2016
Two women in dark robes lean over a swaddled infant cradled between their hands in a shadowed stone archway.
- Style
- Realism
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Women · Children · Figurative
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EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
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About this work
Two barefoot women stand pressed close together beneath a rough stone archway, one in an olive mantle and rust-red robe, the other wrapped head to foot in black. Between their joined hands they hold and gaze down at a pale, rounded bundle - the head of a swaddled infant - the only fully lit form in the composition.
Deep tenebrism reduces the setting to a few illuminated planes: the infant's face, the women's hands, and slivers of cheekbone and drapery emerging from near-total darkness. Thick, warm ochre and umber pigment is built up in broad folds, while the black ground swallows the rest of the canvas, producing a hushed, devotional intensity.
