Image: Thierry de Maigret.

• Note: ‘attributed’ according to Thierry de Maigret, 2012, but authorship unquestioned Sotheby’s, 1977.
• Title(s): A woman with an infant and young girl (this web site); A mother and child (Sotheby’s, 1977); Maternité (Thierry de Maigret, 2012).
• Description: A woman sitting on a low wall holding an infant child standing on her lap, a young girl standing in front of then with her back to the viewer, background of painted architecture.
• Media: oil on panel (Sotheby’s, 1977; Thierry de Maigret, 2012).
• Dimensions: 10¾ x 10½ in; 27 by 26.5 cm” (Sotheby’s, 1977); 27 x 27 cm (Thierry de Maigret, 2012).
• Signature/date/other text: “inscribed on the reverse” (Sotheby’s, 1977); titrée au verso [titled on back] (Thierry de Maigret, 2012).
• History:
  • 1977 May 31 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, Belgravia, London, lot 333 (Sotheby’s, 1977).
  • 2012 Apr 4 – Auctioned Thierry de Maigret, Paris, lot 205, sold: €450 (source: original catalogue with post-sale note inside).
• Location: ?

The location is somwhere near the Basilica of Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls*, by the Campo Verano cemetery, Rome. [* Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, about 2¾ km (1¾ miles) ENE of the Colusseum.] (Information from notice by Italian Mother and Child painting while on display at Painting Light and Hope exhibition, Manchester, 2018-2019.) Notes on the precise location here.

There are obvious similarities to Annie’s Italian Mother and Child – the background building and the stance of the child:

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