The Dead Mother and Her Child
Edvard Munch · 1901 · Etching with open bite and drypoint in black ink on heavyweight cream wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Dead Mother and Her Child is a public-domain illustration by Edvard Munch, dated 1901. Etching with open bite and drypoint in black ink on heavyweight cream wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Dead Mother and Her Child” (1901) is one state of an image Munch often repeated in paint and in print. A print is not the same object as the painting of the same title.
About the artist
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker. Anxiety, illness, and the shore return across both paintings and prints. The Scream exists in more than one version.
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