Troops Playing with Children, Borghese Gardens, Rome
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Australia
City: Canberra
Place: High Commission
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Explore
- Places
- Italy, Rome: Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome
- Subjects
- statue (as Subject), sculpture (as Subject), playing, topography, WW2 art, genre, tree, dog, man, woman, military uniform, child, soldier, World War II, path, garden, plinth (represented)
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)
- Title
- Troops Playing with Children, Borghese Gardens, Rome
- Date
- 1945
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 20.20 cm, width: 25.20 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented via the Imperial War Museum, War Artists' Advisory Committee, April 1946
- Inscription
- verso: inscribed on reverse of canvas board, top centre, on OHMS label, ?in artist's handwriting, in blue ink: "11 [circled] / Troops playing with children in Borghese Gardens Rome / C. Weight".
- GAC number
- 428