Aimé-Jules Dalou

La Charité, also known as Maternité, is a tender portrait of a mother with her two children; she is breastfeeding her youngest, the elder clutches onto her skirts. The present bronze was a sketch for a marble group of Charity which was at the London Stock Exchange: it was replaced by the current bronze model in 1897. 

RELATED LITERATURE
A. Simier, Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République: Catalogue des sculptures de Jules Dalou conserées au Petit Palais, exh. cat. Petit Palais - Musées des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2013, p. 349, no. 282