Mother and child

A heavyset nude woman is posed low on hands and knees, twisting her head and reaching one arm toward a small nude child who runs away from her with arms flung up, seen from behind. The pair are set within a dense, shadowy grove of leaves and red berries, the child's pale figure moving toward darker foliage at the edge of the canvas.

Warm amber and orange light rakes across the woman's body from the side, throwing the rest of the scene into deep shadow broken only by glints of blue sky at the top corners. The paint is smoothly blended in an academic manner, with strong chiaroscuro modeling that gives the chase a tense, unsettling charge.