# The Artist's Wife and Son

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RUNGE, Philipp Otto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 97 x 73 cm

## Commentary

A modest mix of antique pose and Northern physiognomy is found in this Madonna-like grouping of the artist&#39;s wife and son. The painter&#39;s infant son holds fruit like that so often grasped by the baby Jesus.

## Related artworks

- [Colour Spheres](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/colour-spheres-r452f064295a8ed>)
- [Genii on a Lily](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/genii-on-a-lily-r15d0a195ac6300>)
- [Lily of Light and Morning Star](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/lily-of-light-and-morning-star-r7fdaae39e465c7>)
- [Rest on Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/rest-on-flight-into-egypt-r54dab834ecf8de>)
- [Study to the Morning](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/study-to-the-morning-raf10d9eb221637>)
- [The Artist&#39;s Parents](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-artists-parents-rd6676def584769>)
- [The Great Morning \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-great-morning-detail-r9190c791ff361d>)
- [The Great Morning \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-great-morning-detail-re35a802b635589>)
- [The Great Morning](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-great-morning-r7bbb9f1de506f2>)
- [The Hülsenbeck Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-hlsenbeck-children-r3cf1b1bdca7886>)
- [The Lesson of the Nightingale](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-lesson-of-the-nightingale-r04234006d7f513>)
- [The Poet at the Spring](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/runge-philipp-otto-r9c6a2833dc769b/the-poet-at-the-spring-r8a461394c641e3>)

## Attribution

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