Lamentations+over+the+Death+of+the+First-Born+of+Egypt

Date: 1877
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1985/1985.28_1a.jpg?itok=AAXqAHSG width="357" height="269" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/lamentations-over-death-first-born-egypt-19324"]] || Title: **Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt**

Artist: **Charles Sprague Pearce** Born: Boston, Massachusetts 1851 Died: Paris, France 1914

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 38 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (97.8 x 130.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1985.28 || In the painting, a couple mourns the vengeful slaughter of their son. The weeping parents shield their faces as they poise over the child's sarcophagus. At lower right, shattered children's toys refer to the tragic loss. In the Victorian era, when infant mortality was still prevalent and many parents endured the loss of a child, Pearce's Old Testament subject aroused all-too-modern feelings of grief.
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