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| Title | The Sick Child | |
| Collection | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Artist | Girardet, Léopold Henri (Swiss painter, printmaker and sculptor, 1848-1904) | |
| Date | 1897 (dated) | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | During a period when infant and child mortality was high a picture such as this was guaranteed to touch many who saw it. The child lies in an easy chair with her head resting on a pillow and her legs covered with a green shawl. The rosary in her right hand suggests faith in God rather than medicine. The painting is by the Swiss painter and engraver Léopold Henri Girardet, who studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He exhibited at the Salon from 1874. This scene of two children attending their sick sister is characteristic of this realist period of the 1870s, before he turned to orientalist subjects painted in a more fluid and colourful manner in the 1880s. | |
| Current Accession Number | 1600 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'HENRI GIRARDET. 1897' | |
| Subject | interior; figure; everyday life | |
| Measurements | 84.2 x 100.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Sir W. Mappin 1925. | |
| Provenance | Purchased (by Mappin?) from the Guardi Gallery, Haymarket, date unknown. | |
| Rights Owner | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Author | Katia Mai | |