Lafont
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Help! My wife and I saw somewhere in recent years a painting of an Egyptian couple mourning the death of their first-born son - based on the Bible and the tenth of the Ten Plagues. They are shown, my wife recalls, with a sarcaphogus or coffin of some sort, and my wife says the wife/mother looks sort of like an image of Pocahontas. She thinks it's 19th century, but this is all uncertain. The couple, from what I recall, sort of dutifully carry out their responsibilities toward their dead child.
The painting is memorable as it's an unusual perspective - sort of sympathetic toward a couple who are not looked at kindly in the Bible; in a sense it makes the viewer sysmpathize with the couple and what they lost. May even be the Pharoah and wife. It's almost cute, I recall - perhaps a little primitive yet beautifully executed.
Does this ring a bell to anybody? Museums we've visited in recent years include those in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Oberlin, London, Roanoke, Paris, Toledo, Seattle.
The painting is memorable as it's an unusual perspective - sort of sympathetic toward a couple who are not looked at kindly in the Bible; in a sense it makes the viewer sysmpathize with the couple and what they lost. May even be the Pharoah and wife. It's almost cute, I recall - perhaps a little primitive yet beautifully executed.
Does this ring a bell to anybody? Museums we've visited in recent years include those in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Oberlin, London, Roanoke, Paris, Toledo, Seattle.
