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Maternity
Presented by Sir Michael and Lady Sadler through the Art Fund 1928
adults
Algerian
Angelina
baby
birth to death
body
breast
breast feeding
children
family
individuals: female
mother and child
named individuals
nationality
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painting oil paint canvas
Maternity
frame: 1627 × 1140 × 68 mm
support: 1470 × 978 mm
Presented by Sir Michael and Lady Sadler through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1928
<p><b>Jean Marchand</b> 1882-1941</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marchand-maternity-n04417" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04417</span></a> <b>La Maternité</b> (Maternity) 1921</p>
<p>Inscribed 'J. Marchand' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x 38 1/2 (147 x 98) 
<br/>Presented by Sir Michael and Lady Sadler through the NACF 1928 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: With Léon Marseille, Paris (purchased from the artist); with Independent Gallery, London; Sir Michael and Lady Sadler, Leeds and Oxford, 1921 
<br/><i>Exh: Salon d'Automne</i>, Paris, November-December 1921 (1598) as 'Femme allaitant son Enfant'; <i>Paintings and Drawings by Jean Marchand</i>, Independent Gallery, London, June-July 1922 (20) as 'La Maternité' <br/><i>Lit</i>: Roger Fry, 'M. Jean Marchand' in <i>The Dial</i>, LXXIII, 1922, p.390, repr. between pp.388-9 <br/><i>Repr: L'Art et les Artistes</i>, N.S. IV, 1921, p.108; Philippe Chabaneix, <i>Jean Marchand</i> (Paris 1935), n.p.</p> <p>This picture was first exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1921 as 'Femme allaitant son Enfant' (Woman suckling her Child), but when shown in London a few months later the title was changed to 'La Maternité'. A similar <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> painted from the same models, but showing the woman wearing a head-scarf and without a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> background, was exhibited in <i>Jean Marchand</i>, Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, October-November 1921 (10) and is reproduced in <i>L'Art et les Artistes</i>, N.S. IV, 1921, p.109. Paul Maze says that the girl was a professional model who also posed for another picture in the collection, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marchand-angelina-n06203" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06203</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.483, reproduced p.483</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults Algerian Angelina baby birth to death body breast breast feeding children family individuals: female mother and child named individuals nationality people portraits society woman