Troops Playing with Children, Borghese Gardens, Rome

Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)

Oil on canvas

1945

Image of Troops Playing with Children, Borghese Gardens, Rome

About the work

Location

Country: Australia
City: Canberra
Place: High Commission
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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
Details

Artist

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