Mother And Son. #5
by Thomas Sully
Title
Mother And Son. #5
Artist
Thomas Sully
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Mother and Son. Artist: Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783-1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Dimensions: 57 x 45 3/8 in. (144.8 x 115.3 cm). Date: 1840.
This grand, allegorically rich portrait of Sully's daughter Jane Cooper Sully Darley (1807-1877) and her son Francis Thomas Sully Darley (d.1914) has provoked many interpretations, the most ambitious of which equates mother and son with the mythological figure of Penelope, the ideal wife of Odysseus, and Telemachus, her perfect son. Sully filled the composition with attributes of blithe family life: the spray of ivy clinging to the wall is the emblem of a faithful wife; the scene on the urn--Hermes bringing the infant Dionysus to be nurtured by the nymphs--alludes to the duties of motherhood; the boy's foot lightly resting on his dog connotes fidelity and loyalty. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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