Gustave Doré, Les Saltimbanques - 1874
The painting depicts a family of acrobats in which the child has suffered a fatal injury while performing, it shows his mother comforting him while he dies and his father looks on in despair. Doré said of the work: “…he is dying. I wished to depict the tardy awakening of nature in those two hardened almost brutalized beings. To gain money they have killed their child and in killing him they have found out that they had hearts…“ The Passion of Creation
Size: 2904px × 3500px
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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