The artists aimed to represent their subject as realistically as possible, particularly in terms of form and colour. ... It shows a family lying murdered in a bedroom-a father in his nightshirt and nightcap laying on the body of his child with a female figure in the shadows on the left and the head of an old man projecting into the picture at the right. ... We are especially concerned with one family group, the young peasant mother tenderly holding her small child, the weary grandmother lost in her own thoughts, and the young boy fast asleep. ... It is not a portrait of particular people, but ...

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