Two Mothers
Also titled Twee moeders
Frans Stracké (Dorsten, 1820–1898)
1893
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 90 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This sweet scene reflects increasing interest in the lives of fishermen. The statue shows a young woman holding her child, with her dog’s uppies gathered in her apron. Yet life is not a bed of roses for this barefoot fisherman’s wife. She has only two fish in her pouch, and the net that she drags behind her is empty.
