Have long wondered where that building in the background in Italian Mother and Child was, also shown in the attributed work Woman with an infant and young girl – only knowing that it was somewhere in the vicinity of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls, by the Campo Verano cemetery, Rome. Finally located a postcard (undated, but shows the location as it was c. 1940) which answers the question:

It is, indeed, the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, which was unfortunately bombed on 19^th June 1943, completely destroying the front of the building. Annie’s model is depicted sitting in one of those little arches on the far left of the picture overlooking the piazza (there’s built-up level ground behind the arches), perhaps the endmost one. The Woman with an infant and young girl picture shows the end of the mural frieze on the side of the building from approximately the 20^th arch along. (Google Earth web link showing the location: https://earth.google.com.)

The basilica was rebuilt over the next few years but the murals never reproduced. There’s a history of the location here, and more images of the facade pre-bombing on the Italian Wikipedia page. I see that Google Maps currently has (slightly misleadingly) a pre-bombing image of the facade on their page for the location when it is accessed on a laptop, although not on mobiles.

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Jonathan Russell