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"Parents Mourning Over Their Dead Son (Théodore Géricault) , 1943.367,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 13, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/298044.
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A somber drawing of a man and a women mourning over the body of their dead son. Their son, a full grown man, lies in the foreground across the whole width of the paper. His body is naked and muscular, his head, in the lower left corner, is tipped back towards us. His mother and father sit together facing to the left behind him. His father, who is also naked, is bowed and dejected. He supports his bent head with his left hand, the bent arm of which rests on his left knee. He holds a short stick in his right hand, the end of which points to the grown close by his son's shoulder and which may be burning. Behind him the mother gazes distraughtly upwards. Her hands are pressed together seemingly in prayer. On her head she wears a piece of cloth that flows loosely down her back. The sky behind them is dark and turbulent.