Peace

In heavy crosshatched shadow, a pregnant nude woman stands turned toward the viewer, one hand on her belly, the other holding a shallow bowl at her hip. Behind her, drawn in lighter open line, a man sits at a small round table while a child stands on a chair beside him, the two scenes sharing one sheet at different depths.

Dense directional hatching builds the woman's form out of darkness, leaving her torso picked out in bare paper, while the domestic scene behind stays lightly sketched and open. The contrast gives the etching a hushed, private mood, the solitary nude set apart from the quieter family moment behind her.