A woman holds the hands of two nude children in front of a crimson-red cloth in this vertical painting. All three have pale skin and brown hair. The woman wears a forest-green dress with voluminous sleeves and a gauzy white headdress that wraps around her hair and is fastened with a band across her forehead. She stands crouching with one foot extended slightly forward in a sandal, surrounded by broken chunks of masonry and bits of burning logs. Her body faces us but she turns her head to the right. Her mouth is wide open, and her eyes cut back to our left. The woman clutches the children’s…
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The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children

Ercole de' Roberti (Ferrarese, c. 1455/1456 - 1496)

c. 1490/1493

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 47.3 x 30.6 cm (18 5/8 x 12 1/16 in.) ; framed: 67 x 50.2 x 4.4 cm (26 3/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed

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